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 :—Macbeth says, that no doubt shall relax the mind he sways by, i. e. the thorough confidence with which he relies on the predictions of the omniscient spirits; nor any danger appal the heart he bears, i. e. his own conscious intrepidity.

It is only left us, to suppose that the annotator's emotions, like those of the readers just now alluded to, occasioned his gliding too quickly over this passage: he must, otherwise, have perceived Shakspeare's design in it; and would not then have misrepresented him so grossly, as to say that pusillanimity is among the stains that blot the original brightness of Macbeth's character.