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power to fave numbers of theirs. Be this
as it may, Macbeth was too quick not to
profit of the hint he immediately prepared
ibporificks, and, to the knowledge of as
few as pofiible, he mixed with a proper
quantity of the infufion, every calk of the
liquors that were to be fent. Toward night
the impatiently expetted efcort arrived with
thefe liquors, and the imya.i\ex\x. Norwegians
fucked in the fleepy draughts with great
intemperance. How foon the liquors were
delivered, tailed and approved, Sweno’s
fecretary delivered me his preliminary ar¬
ticles for a treaty; the firlt of which being,
that the Scots King, with his whole army,
Ihould next day march, without any fort of
arms, and deliver themfelves up at the
Norwegian camp, to the mercy of King
Sweno I need not enter into the reft. I
took my leave, and returned with the el-
cort to Perth. By this time the valiant men
from Argylejhire, with the noble Thane at
their head, had arrived, and now the army
of Duncan made no inconfiderable figure.
They were already in order of battle, and
waited only for my return, to proceed in
three divifions, commanded by Macbethy
Bancho and Argyley fo as to alfault the
enemy before day-light next morning.
The opiate had had fo fully its effect, that
Macbeth's divifion was in the heart of the
enemy*