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filter—And fuperlatively happy I am, re¬
plied Mt.£beth, in luch an interefling con¬
fidence.—It looks as if our fouls were, by
<b fympathetic a connection, de dined to
an intimacy, which I fhall ftudy to improve
to our mutual advantage. We exchanged
vows of unalterable frieadfhip for one an¬
other, the fit ft proof of which fell to my
fhare, by an anxious appearance at court,
to learn what had become of the young
Caiibncfsy and what animadverfions had
been made upon the fubjedl of his wounds.
I was earlier than ordinary, and yet the
Thane of Caithnejs had got the ftart of me.
With unufual fury in his countenance, he
accofted me, as he propofed to do by every
nobleman that entered, and endeavoured
to prtpoftefs me againft Mac.faih* by great-
ly aggravating every circumftancc of the
afiault, an unmanly one, as he termed it,
upon his fon. He remonftrated. That if
fttch excefles were permitted to go unpu-
nifhed, even with Princes of the Wood,
none of the nobility fhould be fafe, in at¬
tempting to oppofe them in the perpetra-
* tion qf the moA unjuftifiabk outrages.-^-
That Macbeth's aftault upon the life of his
fon had no other provocation, than that
fbHrfot feeing three innocent gentlemen
overpowered by numbers of bravadoes*
who attended to fupport Maebeib in fome
fecret