ACT V
SCENE IV Country near Birnam wood.


 [Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG
 SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS,
 LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching]

MALCOLM Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
 That chambers will be safe.

MENTEITH We doubt it nothing.

SIWARD What wood is this before us?

MENTEITH The wood of Birnam.

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.

Soldiers It shall be done.

SIWARD We learn no other but the confident tyrant
 Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
 Our setting down before 't.

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.

MACDUFF Let our just censures
 Attend the true event, and put we on
 Industrious soldiership.

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.

 [Exeunt, marching]




 MACBETH


ACT V