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 enmity; but am prepared to hear with firmness what is to betide me, be it for good, or ill. This is the noble image of manly fortitude, with not a feature ruffled by the vulgarizing sneer of Contempt.

Macbeth, having recapitulated the predictions of the Witches, asks whether "they went," or not, as he had repeated them: Banquo, when he assents to the preciseness of the recital, and makes this answer,— To the self-same tune and words, — is far from intending any ridicule of their prophecy: it is an exact and