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 Into the air; and what seem'd corporal, melted As breath into the wind. 'Would they had stay'd!

Here, it must be allowed, Macbeth is not so far troubled by their promise, and at their appearance, but that, like Brutus,—who has never been called a coward,—he would hold more talk

with these apparitions.

It cannot, on any tenable pretence, be said that Banquo treats the Witches with contempt: he solemnly adjures them by the name of Truth; and,