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Fleance acts a principal, not a secondary, part in Macbeth's consideration.
To reign,—not precariously, and in the daily hazard of the worst that treason can do; to reign, secure from all the efforts of domestic malice and foreign invasion; thus to enjoy his ill-acquired sovereignty, is the aim of the usurper's crimes; the sole care that, at present, agitates and distracts him:—
To be thus, is nothing;
all his anxiety is,
to be safely thus.[1]
How soon the promise made to Ban-
- ↑ Macbeth, Act iii. Sc. 1.
