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A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,
A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peasants:[1]—
and it is true, that Macbeth, in like manner, speaks with contempt of his enemies and revolted nobles:—
Fly, false Thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures, &c.[2]
Mr. Whateley, however, assumes more than he can maintain, in urging this harangue to his army as a proof of Richard's intrepidity ; for it does not express the tyrant's real opinion of Richmond's followers. The inferiority of the foe is a topic on which
