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request Angus complies, he allows the former Thane to be ftill alive, yet as he lived the life of a traitor who was evidently guilty by his own confeffion, he was dead in law, and even pronounced to be fo, by the King. He further acknowledges, that tho' he was ignorant of the exact extent of the crime, for which Cawdor was to fuffer, but he was quite fure of his condemnation.,

Whether he was combin'd with Norway, er did line the rebels, &c.

Although thefe cannot be the words of Roffe, who was prefent at the engagement in which Cawdor affifted the rebels, and even brought the intelligence of it, there can be no impropriety in afcribing them to Angus, who thinks himself obliged to detail the whole fo far only as it was well known to him, because Macbeth seems to hefitate in crediting it. Thusfarthe Doctor may be excufed for his remarks, but how Macheth in his perturbed tate of mind fhould give offence to him, by faying,

The thane of Cawdor lives, &c. is truly aftonishing. It must be remembered that Macbeth could procure no certainty from the weird fifters on that fubject which fo much perplexed him. It was on the attainment of the thaneship of Cawdor, he chiefly refted his hopes of being King hereafter, no wonder then if his anxiety produced a fort of mifgiving in his mind, and a momentary doubt of the truth, feeing the inveftiture follow fo close upon the predictions of the fitters. That this was really the meaning of the Poet in the paffage we have been confidering, can be no longer doubted, when the fubfequent fpeech

of Macbeth is attended to:

Glamis, and thane of Cawdor:
The greateft is behind.

Now, that I am affured of the thaneship of Cawdor, there can be no longer caufe to diftruft the reft, it will follow of course; he is quite overjoyed with thefe reflections, and giving

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My thought, whofe murder yet is but fantastical,

Shakes fo my fingle ftate of man, that function

Is fmother'd in furmife, &c.

The Doctor thinks single used by Shakespeare for an individual in oppofition to a commonwealth or conjunct body of men, here it most obviously alludes to his being the only perfon embarked in this murderous defign, and fo unnerved by fuftaining the whole preffure of the guilt of the action, even an idea that he should never dare to bring himself to the execution of it. He feems plainly to infinuate, that had he been backed by a few affociates, the execution would have been the immediate confequence of the refolution, as he seems to think the confcience would have been lefs clamerous, feeing the enormity of the guilt would be diminished in proportion to the number of thofe to whom it was communicated, and this remorfe would prove a less formidable obftacle.

Come what come may; Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

The Doctor to avoid the tautology of time and the hour, fuppofes the Poet to have wrote thus: Time "on" the hour runs through, &c. and throws out fome ingenious remarks to favour this reading. I confefs I fee no tautology, if we read thus, Time and the Hours run through, &c. i. e. Time attended by the Hours. The hore, or hours, are always reprefented as part of the retinue of old Time; I cannot therefore fee any

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juft reason why time fhould here be
deified, while the like honor is denied
to the hora. There is yet another
reafon for objecting to fuch a pause
as the Dr.'s reading requires; it ftops
the rapidity of the flow of the verses,
which
appear to me evidently intend-
ed to point out the hurried conclu-

fion of the fpeaker, who, unable to overcome his fcruples or fatisfy his mind, by the train of reflections into which he has fallen, breaks off in a kind of defperation,

Come, what come may, &c.

[To be concluded in our next.]

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From Drake's Literary Hours.

THE fullen tolling of the Curfew was heard over the heath, and not a Ed. Mag. Feb. 1799

beam of light iffued from the dreary villages, the murmuring Cotter had exS tinguished

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