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What is the soldier's intrepidity, buta disdain of fortune? or, in less figurative words, what, but that perfect scorn of danger which Glamis so eminently displays, whenever fit occasions call him into it?
Further, it is objected, though with some restriction, that, in Macbeth, courage proceeds from exertion, not from nature; and that in enterprise he betrays a degree of fear.—Let us revert to Shakspeare.—
Serg. No sooner justice had, with valour arm'd,
Compell'd these skipping kernes to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage,
With furbish'd arms, and new supplies of men,
Began a fresh assault.
