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forcibly to mark his impatience for an answer.
Why should the speeches of the two Generals, in this scene, appear to be injudiciously distributed?[1] and how will the difference in their characters account for such a disposition?[2]—Banquo speaks to the witches first:[3] Very true; and it is admirably contrived, that he shall see them first; not, as the author of the Remarks unadvisedly supposes, in token of his superior presence of mind; but, most assuredly, because the poet, profoundly a master in his art, is solicitous, by their ceremonious silence to Banquo,—
