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Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep;—
and
There is none, but he,
Whose being I do fear.
In order that no shadow of doubt may rest on the quality of the fears mentioned in these passages, it will be proper to trace the course of reasoning pursued through the context of the soliloquy from which they are taken.
Macb. To be thus, is nothing;
But to be safely thus;—Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that, which would be fear'd: 'Tis much he dares:
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
