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Banquo's exclamation, on seeing; a part of the high fortune foretold to Glamis so soon accomplished,—
What, can the devil speak true![1]—
is so far from being dictated by disregard,[2]—(How is it possible, it should be so?)—that it is an ejaculation of the utmost wonder; for, when Macbeth takes occasion, from that very event, to sound him on the hope that -his children would be elevated to the throne of Scotland,—a hope he now might reasonably entertain,—he awfully replies:—
'Tis strange!
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
