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****Bloody,
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name:[1]

Cathness and Siward express themselves thus, when speaking of him;—

Cath. Some say, he's mad; others, that lesser hate him,
Do call it valiant fury:[2]
 
Siw. We learn no other, but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
Our sitting down before it.[3]

Some, we see, ascribe his actions to madness; but then, it is a valiant distraction: some call him tyrant; but then, he is a confident tyrant: All know

  1. Macbeth, Act iv. Sc. 3.
  2. Id. Act v. Sc. 2.
  3. Id. Sc. 4.