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 on motives unmixed with cowardice; for, allowing, for one moment, that he personally feared the father, it is absolutely impossible that he could have any personal fear of the son, who had not yet passed the term of boyhood:— Banq. How goes the night, boy?

Fle. The moon is down: I have not heard the clock.

Fleance, therefore, as far as Macbeth's personal courage is concerned, is to be laid entirely out of our regard.

Now, with respect to Banquo, who, according to Mr. Whateley, was the only efficient cause of Macbeth's