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Notes 125 

fourth, the sixth and seventh, and the seventh and eighth 
days, as represented by Mr. Daniel in the following chrono- 
logical chart: 



Day 1 


Act I 


Scenes 1 — 3 


Day 2 


Act I 


Scenes A — 7 


Day 3 


Act II 
(Interval of about two weeks) 


Scenes 1 — 4 


Day 4 


Act III 


Scenes 1 — 5 


Day 5 


Act IV 


Scene 1 


Day 6 


Act IV 
(Interval of one or two weeks) 


Scene 2 


Day 7 


Act IV 


Scene 3 


Day 7 


Act V 


Scene 1 


Day 8 


Act V 
(Interval of several weeks) 


Scenes 2, 3 


Day 9 


Act V 


Scenes 4 — 8 


ACT I 

Scene I. This scene is placed first to represent the pres- 
ence, from the first, of the tremendous power of fate, which 
is so inevitably to control the action. 

8. Graymalkin. Cat. 

9. Paddock. Toad. 

Scene II. 

3. Sergeant. A foot soldier. 

13. Kerns and Gallowglasses. Light and heavy armed 
soldiers. 

25. Storms arising in the East are unexpected and severe : 
at the moment of Macbeth's victory over Macdonwald, the 
Norwegian king, i. e., Sweno, "began a fresh assault." 

40. Golgotha. Calvary. 

54. Bellona's bridegroom: i. e., Macbeth. Bellona, the 
goddess of war. 

61. St. Colme's Inch. An island in the Firth of Forth.