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Macbeth, than in the perturbation of Richard?

When Richard asks,

My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?[1]

and afterwards enquires,

Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?[2]

he is not satisfied upon being told that the Earl and Surry were busied in[3]

Cheering up the soldiers:[4]

he would, indeed, fain persuade himself to be satisfied; but his own express words prove, that he is very far from being really at ease:—

  1. K. Richard, Act v. Sc. 3.
  2. Ib.
  3. Remarks, p. 76.
  4. Ib.