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of a bridegroom : how foon Bancho was
ready to ftep into bed, he drew afide
the curtains on purpofe that the Queen
might fee him, fo as not to be deceived in
the perlon intended to fill her arms s and
thereupon Macbeth withdrew.
‘ Bar.cbo, rather feduced, than tempted
to this trial of his manhood, lay a few
minutes infienftble to any of thole emotions,
which men are apt to feel when they get
within the cur;ains, to a new objedt of their
own courting ; but at length the commu¬
nicative warmth, which feldom fails to
move perfons of a different fex, when
in one bed, began to quicken in the
deftined vidtim; and turning himfelf to
the clofer embrace, horrid to relate! Ihe
received him on the point of a dagger lh«
had fecreted in the bed for the purpofe, and
which fhe barbaroufly thruft home to his
heart!
‘ We muff next follow Macbeth to the
commiflion of an adtion on his part, no
otherwile lefs flagitious than his wife’s, than
that the temptation to it was not quite fo
diabolical. He no fooner had bid good
night to Bancho, than he haftened to the
apartment of the filler of Broad Alb an e,
who had been corrupted to facilitate the
ruin of the lovely Inetta; and having learnt
from her, that the unfufpicious charmer.