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 Banquo's exclamation, on seeing; a part of the high fortune foretold to Glamis so soon accomplished,— What, can the devil speak true! —

is so far from being dictated by disregard, —(How is it possible, it should be so?)—that it is an ejaculation of the utmost wonder; for, when Macbeth takes occasion, from that very event, to sound him on the hope that -his children would be elevated to the throne of Scotland,—a hope he now might reasonably entertain,—he awfully replies:— 'Tis strange! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,