“The air hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them:—Whither are they vanish'd?”
and then Macbeth's earnest reply,—
“Into the air; and what seem'd corporal, melted
As breath into the wind.—Would they had stay'd!”
Is it too minute to notice the appropriateness of the simile “as breath,” &c., in a cold climate?
Still again Banquo goes on wondering like any common spectator,—
“Were such things here as we do speak about?”
whilst Macbeth persists in recurring to the self-concerning:—
“Your children shall be kings.