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 Fleance acts a principal, not a secondary, part in Macbeth's consideration.

To reign,—not precariously, and in the daily hazard of the worst that treason can do; to reign, secure from all the efforts of domestic malice and foreign invasion; thus to enjoy his ill-acquired sovereignty, is the aim of the usurper's crimes; the sole care that, at present, agitates and distracts him:—

To be thus, is nothing; all his anxiety is, to be safely thus. How soon the promise made to