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The Remarks, still bent on the degradation of Macbeth, proceed:— That apprehension (personal fear) was his reason for these murthers, he intimates himself: when meditating on that of Banquo, he observes, that—
Things, bad begun, make strong themselves by ill:[1]
and, when that of Macduff is in contemplation, he says,[2]—
I am in blood
Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.[3]
If these expressions cannot be suggested to Macbeth by any feeling but
