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proceedings might often appear confused, and sometimes perhaps be unintelligible. We are bound, then, to look oii the introductory portrait which our author has drawn of Macbeth, as the true resemblance of him; for the mind may not picture to itself a person of the poet's arbitrary invention, under any features, but those by which that invention has thought fit to identify him.—Here is the portrait.
Serg. The merciless Macdonwald
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***from the western isles
Of kernes and gallowglasses is supplied;
And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,
Show'd like a rebel's whore: But all's too weak;
