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and sparrows? While Macbeth thus dedicates himself to the face of peril, does his behaviour indicate reluctance? Does it betray the result of effort and exertion? No; it is the impulse of a dauntless temper, that hurries the bridegroom of Bellona through the dismal conflict, again to confront the enemy, and hold him point to point, till his resistless arm has curbed the over-confident presumption of, the royal invader of his country, and raised, on his discomfi-
&c. &c. &c. On this, and' other occasions, Even-handed justice might commend the ingredients of his poison'd chalice to his own lips:—But the asperities of his commentary shall not be retaliated here.
