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 forcibly to mark his impatience for an answer.

Why should the speeches of the two Generals, in this scene, appear to be injudiciously distributed? and how will ''the difference in their characters account for such a disposition? —Banquo speaks to the witches first:'' Very true; and it is admirably contrived, that he shall see them first; not, as the author of the Remarks unadvisedly supposes, in token of his superior presence of mind; but, most assuredly, because the poet, profoundly a master in his art, is solicitous, by their ceremonious silence to Banquo,—