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| Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM,
SIWARD, MACDUFF, Siward's
SON, MENTEITH,
CAITHNESS, ANGUS,
LENNOX, ROSS, and
SOLDIERS, marching |
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MALCOLM, old SIWARD and his
SON, MACDUFF,
MENTEITH, CAITHNESS,
ANGUS, LENNOX,
ROSS, and SOLDIERS enter marching,
with a drummer and flag. |
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| | MALCOLM |
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Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand |
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That chambers will be safe. |
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| MALCOLM |
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Kinsmen, I hope the time is coming when people will be safe in
their own bedrooms. |
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| | MENTEITH |
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We
doubt it nothing. |
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| MENTEITH |
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We don't doubt it. |
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| | SIWARD |
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What wood is this before us? |
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| SIWARD |
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What's the name of this forest behind us? |
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| | MENTEITH |
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The
wood of Birnam. |
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| | MALCOLM |
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Let every soldier hew him down a bough |
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And bear 't before him. Thereby shall we shadow |
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The numbers of our host and make discovery |
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Err in report of us. |
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| MALCOLM |
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Tell every soldier to break off a branch and hold it in front of
him. That way we can conceal how many of us there are, and
Macbeth's spies will give him inaccurate reports. |
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| | SOLDIERS |
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It
shall be done. |
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| | SIWARD |
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We learn no other but the confident tyrant |
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Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure |
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Our setting down before 't. |
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| SIWARD |
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We have no news except that the overconfident Macbeth is still in
Dunsinane and will allow us to lay siege to the castle. |
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| | MALCOLM |
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'Tis
his main hope: |
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For, where there is advantage to be given, |
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Both more and less have given him the revolt, |
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And none serve with him but constrainèd things |
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Whose hearts are absent too. |
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| MALCOLM |
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He wants us to lay siege. Wherever his soldiers have an
opportunity to leave him, they do, whatever rank they are. No one
fights with him except men who are forced to, and their hearts
aren't in it. |
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| | MACDUFF |
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Let
our just censures |
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Attend the true event, and put we on |
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Industrious soldiership. |
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| MACDUFF |
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We shouldn't make any judgments until we achieve our
goal. Let's go fight like hardworking soldiers. |
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