Excerpt from Critical Essays Macbeth, who had committed one mur der in perfon, who intended to com mit another by proxy, and was about to acquaint his wife with his intention, could not be very likely to talk ofiiecate fummoning the beetle fit/jim: c/l'oajj' [mm to ring m'glrt'j yawning nor to recollect that foch beetle had its place of nativity under a tile fhard. The imagination muft be indeed fer tile, which could produce this ill placed exuberance of imagery. The Poet, when compofing this pafl'age, mull have had in his mind all the remote ideas of Hecate, a heathen goddefs, of a beetle, ofnight, of a peal of bells, and of that aetion of the mufcles, commonly called a gape or yawn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.