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 they threaten to reduce him and his lineage from the splendours of monarchy to the obscurity of vassalage.

A moment's attention must now be bestowed on Macbeth's conduct towards Macduff; in which the Remarks find additional proofs of his cowardice:—The same motives of personal fear, and those unmixed with any other, impel him to seek the destruction of Macduff.

Macbeth is not wrought by personal fear to destroy Macduff: it is from conviction of the Thane's indisposition to his government, that he wishes to have him within his grasp:—