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each, at once, her choppy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips,[1]
to heighten the solemnity of that
prophetic greeting,[2]
with which they are about to hail Macbeth. The remainder of the scene evinces, beyond the possibility of cavil, that this distribution of the speeches is not adopted for the purpose of showing Banquo's superiority, in being perfectly calm[3] under an occurrence that had disturbed Macbeth; for, if Macbeth—(and very naturally,)—is amazed when he sees the Witches are vanished[4], and likens them, in their
