That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?
Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely, too;
For ’twould have angered any heart alive
To hear the men deny it. etc. etc.
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ACT IV.
Scene 1st. Here we have the witches boiling their cauldron. It is composed of various and contradictory materials;
Black spirits and white,
Red spirits and gray.
And so truth and falsehood are mingled in the promises to Macbeth which immediately follow; and which are kept literally to the ear, but broken fatally to the hope.