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to be disputed: but, superstition is a weakness by no means incompatible with personal courage: if it were, Mr. Whateley and Mr. Steevens would not be able a moment longer to sustain their own character of Richard; for its influence operates as powerfully in him, as in Macbeth: Macbeth's superstition rests on the assurances of supernatural agents, whose first promises to him had already been made good; Richard condescends to be affected by dreams and omens:—
K. Rich. Richmond!—When I was last at Exeter,
The Mayor in courtesy show'd me the Castle,
And call'd it—Rouge-mont: at which name, I started:
