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tenance has no dejecting influence on his own mind.
But, what is Richard's composure in a parallel situation of his affairs? The tidings brought him of rebellious insurrections, first in Devonshire and then in Kent, being followed up by news of the army which Buckingham has raised against him, he is alarmed at this accumulation of dangers; overcome by wrathful despite, he rails, like Macbeth, at the ill-boding Messengers; and, in his boiling impatience, forgets, himself so far as to strike one of them,[1] exclaiming:—
- ↑ Macbeth is placed in a situation not entirely unlike that in which Richard finds himself, when, by the direction of all the old copies, he strikes
