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any beauty before, advanced and faluted
her, but rather with a courtly decency than
that kingly ftatelinefs which he wore upon
other occafions: he immediately fell into
converfation with her •, and if he was at firft
fight ftruck with her figure, ne was now no
lefs tranfported with that fenfibility and dig¬
nity with which Ihe mode ft ly delivered her-
felf upon every fubjed. The Queen made
many errands to give them an opportunity
of being fete a te/e, and on fuch occafions
Macbeth would make fly advances, to guefs
at the pulfations of her heart; all of which
ferved no other purpofe, but the more to
convince him that fhe was of a very differ¬
ent complexion from any of thofe to whom
he had formerly tendered his addreffes.
Such diftant, tho’ courteous deportment,
the more enhanced the value of her charms,
and infpired him with a greater ardour to
enjoy them; though the refped which her
manner commanded, made him keep a very
tight rein over his glowing paflion. The
Queen was happy to obferve how well her
fcheme went forward, but wifhed to fee the
King’s defires inflamed to a greater violence.
‘ Inetta having taken leave, the Queen
rallied her huflband with having been rather
a whining than a manly lover; he account¬
ed for that, by telling her, that if he was
not much miftaken, Inetta pofieffed per¬
fections