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 mighty weight of his calamity, cries out:— This tune goes manly!

This passage, in which Malcolm terms the effusions of Macduff's grief and rage "a manly tune," sufficiently confirms the serious import of Banquo's reply to Macbeth in the scene under our immediate consideration. It were superfluous here to accumulate instances of the grave employment to which our elder poets put the word Tune. They who are desirous to have all the information to be gained on Shakspeare's use of this word, or of any other to be found in his dramatic works, should, as a preliminary step, have recourse to Mr. Twiss's correct and invaluable ''Complete Verbal Index to the Plays of Shakspeare, adapted to all the Editions. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1805''.