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if the fair Inetta was not to be fub-
dued, by the ordinary fnares formed
conquer virtue, to betray her into com¬
pliance. She foothed the King as well,
in the mean time, as Ihe could; fhe
intreated him to be patient for a few' days,
and undertook at the peril of her life, by
one mean or other to acomplifh his hap-
pinefs.
'‘The King however not feeing the idol of
his foul as ufual, grew penfive and melan¬
choly, it was impoflible to entertain him,
Bancho furprifed him one day whilft he was1
walking and mufing' in his palace garden :
and as a friend, intreated to know the caufe-
of his difcontent? Macbeth tried in his pre¬
fence to put on an appearance of greater
compolure, but the emotions of his heart
would not difguife for him : Bancho prefled
him the more earneftly, to let him at Icalt
lhare in what diftreffed him, declaring if
he Ihould not have the power to ttlic-iHi- y
he Ihould certainly lighten the burthen by
bearing a part of it.—He told Bancho that
he of all others, was the kail likely to
alfift him, and therefore defired he might
defift from inquiring into the knowledge
of what if once known, would give him
pain, and rather if poffible add to, than
leflen his own. Bancho little dreaming
what could be the caufe, ftill perirfted’,.
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