Law And The Scottish Thane
DURING the representation of Macbeth, an eminent special pleader
graced the boxes of Drury Lane Theatre, to see it performed. When the
hero questions the Witches, as to what they are doing: they answer, a
deed without a name. Our counsellor, whose attention was at that moment
directed more to Coke upon Littleton than to Shakespeare, catching,
however, the words in the play, repeated, A deed without a name!
why, 't is void.