“Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care,
Who chafes, who frets, and where conspirers are?”
Who told Robespierre—
“Be bloody, bold and resolute, laugh to scorn,
The power of man,” etc.?
It was not the spectres, in the witches’ case—nor the express conditions added.
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until
Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him.”
Or,