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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d had come. He hesitated, andreminded her of the consequencesif he should fail. She taunted himas being a coward, and told him to screw his courage up to the stick-ing-place, and he would not fail.Then he took his dagger, and, ac-cording to Shakspeare, made a longspeech over it, a speech which, Iam sorry to say, stage-struck boysand girls have been mouthing in amost unearthly manner ever since the days of Queen Bess. Macbeth screwed his courage up to the sticking-place indeed, and thenand there was the end of the life of Duncan. When the deed was done, he puthis poniard into the hand of a sentinel, who was sleeping in the kings room,under the influence of wine that Lady Macbeth had drugged. When the meal was prepared on the following morning, Macbeth and hislady pretended to be much surprised that the old king did not get up. Macduff,the thane of Fife, who was one of the royal party, decided at last to go to thekings apartment to see if the king was well. He returned speedily in great
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WITCHES. GHOST STORIES. 37 excitement, as one may well suppose. As Shakspeare continues the interestingnarrative: — Macduff. O horror ! horror! horror!Macbeth. Whats the matter ? Macd. Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Most sacrilegious murder hath brokeope the Lords anointed temple and stole thence the life o the building.Macb. What is t you say ? the life ? Macbeth appeared to be greatly shocked by the event, and, with a great showof fury and many hot words, he despatched the sentinels of the king, whom hefeigned to believe had done the deed. Lady Macbeth fell upon the floor, pre-tending, of all things in the world for a woman of such mettle, to faint. So Macbeth came to the throne. But he remembered that the weird womenhad foretold that Banquo should become the father of kings, which made himfear for the stability of his throne. He thought to correct the tables of destinysomewhat, and so he induced two desperate men to do by Banquo as he haddone by Duncan. The spirit of Ba

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