. Enter Seyton, with the King's Truncheon, and a Gentleman, with his Armour. Macb. Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. Give me my staff:— Seyton, send out:—Doctor, the thanes fly from me:— The water of my land, find her disease, That should applaud again.― What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug, Would scour these English hence?—Hearest thou of them? Phy. Ay, my good lord, your royal preparation Makes us hear something. Macb. Bring it after me.— I will not be afraid of death and bane, [Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.—Exeunt. Scene III. Birnam Forest.—A March. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Lenox, RossE, and Soldiers. Mai. Cousins, I hope, the days are near at hand, That chambers will be safe. Macd. We doubt it nothing. Siw. What wood is this before us? Len. The wood of Birnam. Mal. Let every soldier hew him down a bough, Len, It shall be done. Rosse. We learn no other, but the confident tyrant Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure Our setting down before't. Macd. 'Tis his main hope: For where there is advantage to be gone, Both more and less have given him the revolt; Siw. Let our just censures Attend the true event, and put we on Macd. The time approaches, That will with due decision make us know [March.—Exeunt into the Wood. SCENE IV. The Ramparts of the Castle at Dunsinane. Flourish of Trumpets and Drums. Enter Macbeth, Seyton, and Attendants. Macb. Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still," They come:" Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie, Till famine, and the ague, eat them up: Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours, We might have met them dareful, beard to beard, And beat them backward home. [A cry within, of Women. What is that noise? Sey. It is the cry of women, my good lord. [Exit Seytok. Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears; As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Enter Seyton. Wherefore was that cry? Sey. The queen, my lord, is dead. And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an ideot, full of sound and fury, Enter First Officer. Thou com'st to use thy tongue: thy story quickly. 1 Off. Gracious my lord, I should report that which, I say, I saw, Macb. Well, say, sir, the hill, 1 Off. As I did stand my watch upon I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move. Macb. Liar and slave! 1 Off. Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so: Within this three mile may you see it coming; I say, a moving grove. Macb. If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth :- "Fear not, till Birnam wood And wish the state o'the world were now undone.— [Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.—Exeunt Scene v. A Plain before the Castle at Dunsinane. Flourish of Trumpets and Drums. Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Lenox, and Soldiers, with Boughs, discovered. Mal. Now near enough; your leavy screens throw down, And show like those you are :—You, worthy uncle, Len. This way, my lord, the castle's gently render'd. Siw. Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night, Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight. Macd. Make all our trumpets speak: give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. [Alarums.—Exeunt. SCENE VI. A Court in the Castle at Dunsinane. Alarums. Enter Macbeth. Macb. They have ty'd me to a stake; I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course.—What's he, That was not born of woman? Such a one Am I to fear, or none. [Alarums.—Exit. Enter Macduff and Soldiers. Macd. That way the noise is :—Tyrant, show thy face; If thou be'st slain, and with no stroke of mine, I sheathe again undeeded. Let me find him, fortune! and More I beg not. [Alarums.—Exeunt. |