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It is hardly worth while to reply to the author of the Remarks, when he insinuates it as a proof of timidity in Macbeth, that, after the murder of Duncan, all his answers to the trivial questions of Lenox and Macduff are evidently given by a man thinking of something else: and that, by taking a tincture from the subject of his attention, they become equivocal.[1]

Macd. Is the King stirring, worthy Thane?
 
Macb. Not yet.

Len. Goes the King

From hence to-day ?

Macb. He does:—he did appoint so.

Len. The night has been unruly: Where we lay,

  1. Remarks, p. 33.