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 The Remarks, still bent on the degradation of Macbeth, proceed:— That apprehension (personal fear) was his reason for these murthers, he intimates himself: when meditating on that of Banquo, he observes, that— Things, bad begun, make strong themselves by ill: and, when that of Macduff is in contemplation, he says, — I am in blood Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

If these expressions cannot be suggested to Macbeth by any feeling but