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fcancho a<5hially began to banilh the alarnii
he had entertained ttpon her account, and
to believe that the King’s uneafinefs had
really proceeded from the ridiculous caul’e
he had himlelf afligned for it, and was
therefore lefs folicitous about her depar¬
ture from court, than otherwife he would!
have been.
‘ Upon the morning of the fatal day, that
Lady Macbeth had ddtined for the moft
unnatural tragedy that ever was afted,
Macbeth called .upon Bancho in the morn¬
ing, and telling him, that that was to be
the night, which he hoped would beget
him an heir for his Kingdom, he in¬
vited him, with his family, to comme¬
morate the feaft, which was his own
birth-day, at the palace ; and, fays he,
that you may be under no fort of appre-
henfions of committing any difagreeable
furprife upon the Queen, and to prevent
the blufhes of either of you, I will myfelf
condudt you into, and help to undrefs you
in the bed-chamber! And to give the
moft natural look to the whole, continued
he, that neither the domefticks of your
houl’e, nor of the palace, may make any
fufpicious obfervations, I will at fupper
publicly infill, that you, your fon and
filler, may all fleep in the Palace for the1
night. Bancho was now too deeply en-1
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