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Into the air; and what seem'd corporal, melted
As breath into the wind. 'Would they had stay'd![1]
Here, it must be allowed, Macbeth is not so far troubled by their promise, and at their appearance[2], but that, like Brutus,—who has never been called a coward,—he
would hold more talk[3]
with these apparitions.
It cannot, on any tenable pretence, be said that Banquo treats the Witches with contempt:[4] he solemnly adjures them by the name of Truth; and,
