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The true reason for the first appearance of the Witches is to strike the key-note of the character of the whole drama, as is proved by their re- appearance in the third scene, after such an order of the king's as establishes their supernatural power of informa- tion. I need not say, that the general idea is all that can be required from the poet, — not a scholastic logical consistency in all the parts so as to meet metaphysical objectors. And then, again, still unintroitive, addresses the Witches : — I' the name of truth. But Macbeth, lost in thought, raises himself to speech only by the Witches being about to depart : — Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more : — and all that follows is reasoning on a problem already discussed in his mind, — on a hope which he welcomes, and the doubts concerning the attainment of which he wishes to have cleared up. Compare his eagerness, — the keen eye with which he has pursued the Witches' evanishing — Speak, I charge you! Still again Banquo goes on wondering like any common spectator : Were such things here as we do speak about?
You shall be king. And thane of Cawdor too : went it not so? So surely is the guilt in its germ anterior to the supposed cause, and immediate temptation! Before he can cool. Banquo's speech : — That, trusted home. Might yet enkindle you unto the crown.

Besides the thane of Cawdor. Then in the necessity of recollecting himself — 1 thank you, gentlemen. Then he relapses into himself again, and every word of his soliloquy shows the early birth-date of his guilt. Notes on Macbeth i6i lb. Macbeth's speech : Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. Warburton's note, and substitution of 'feats' for 'fears.
Dn the entrance of the deeper traitor for whom Cawdor tiad made way! And here in contrast with Duncan's 'plenteous joys,' Macbeth has nothing but the common- places of loyalty, in which he hides himself with 'our duties. I always think there is something especially Shak- spearian in Duncan's speeches throughout this scene, such pourings forth, such abandonments, compared with the language of vulgar dramatists, whose characters seem to have made their speeches as the actors learn them. Macbeth is described by Lady Macbeth so as at the same time to reveal her own character. Lady Macbeth, hke all in Shakspeare, is a class individua- lized : — of high rank, left much alone, and feeding herself with day-dreams of ambition, she mistakes the courage of fantasy for the power of bearing the consequences of the realities of guilt. Her invocations and requisitions are all the false efforts of a mind accustomed only hitherto to the shadows of the imagination, vivid enough to throw the every-day substances of life into shadow, but never as yet brought into direct contact with their own correspondent realities.

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