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several particular and pertinent questions[1]—(which, it should be noted, amount to no more than two, before Macbeth joins in the interrogation,)—expressive of mere curiosity:[2]-on the contrary, they are thoroughly expressive of the great surprise with which both he and his partner are equally struck, on their first encountering three objects of so grotesque and haggard an appearance.
Banq. What are these,
So wither'd, and so wild in their attire,—
That look not like the inhabitants of the earth,
And yet are on't!—Live you? or are you aught
That man may question?[3]
