ABSTRACT
So much for Dress and Figure. Now I shall proceed to the more difficult and physical Parts of the Character, and shall consider the Action, Speaking and Conception of our modern Heroe.
The first Words of the Part, —So foul and fair a Day I have not seen, in my Opinion are spoke wrong. Macbeth before his Entrance has been in a great Storm of Rain, Thunder, &c. Now as the Audience have been appriz’d of this by the three Witches he should very emphatically describe the quick Transition from being wet to the Skin to being almost instantaneously dry’d again. Tho’ I can’t convey in Writing the Manner how it should be spoke yet every Reader may comprehend how it ought to be spoke, and know that in the Manner it is now spoke the Sentiment is languid, unintelligible, and undescriptive.
