Act V, Scene iv: Country nearDunsinane: a Wood in view.
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[Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward and his Son,Macduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers,marching.]
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| | MALCOLM: | |
| | Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand | |
| | That chambers will be safe. | |
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| | MENTEITH: | |
| | We doubt it nothing. | |
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| | SIWARD: | |
| | What wood is this before us? | |
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| | MENTEITH: | |
| | The wood of Birnam. | |
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| | MALCOLM: | |
| | Let every soldier hew him down a bough, | |
| | And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow | |
| | The numbers of our host, and make discovery | |
| | Err in report of us. | |
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| | SOLDIERS: | |
| | It shall be done. | |
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| | SIWARD: | |
| | We learn no other but the confident tyrant | |
| | Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure | |
| | Our setting down before't. | |
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| | MALCOLM: | |
| | 'Tis his main hope: | |
| | For where there is advantage to be given, | |
| | Both more and less have given him the revolt; | |
| | And none serve with him but constrained things, | |
| | Whose hearts are absent too. | |
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| | MACDUFF: | |
| | Let our just censures | |
| | Attend the true event, and put we on | |
| | Industrious soldiership. | |
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| | SIWARD: | |
| | The time approaches, | |
| | That will with due decision make us know | |
| | What we shall say we have, and what we owe. | |
| | Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate; | |
| | But certain issue strokes must arbitrate: | |
| | Towards which advance the war. | |
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