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could suggest for the secure establishment of his throne.

The Remarks would next presume, that Macbeth is clearly convicted of cowardice on his own acknowledgement; Alluding principally to the passages already refuted, they say,—These are all symptoms of timidity, which he confesses to have been natural to him, when he owns,[1]—

The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir
As life were in't.[2]

Had the author of the Remarks

  1. ↑ Remarks, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 5.
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