Both more and less have given him the revolt; And none serve with him but constrained things, Whose hearts are absent too. Macd. Let our just censures Attend the true event, and put we on Industrious soldiership. Siw. The time approaches, That will with due decision make us know SCENE Dunsinane. [Exeunt, marching. V. Within the Castle. Enter, with drums and colours, MACBETH, SEYΤΟΝ, and Soldiers. 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. What is that noise? [A cry within, of women. Sey. It is the cry of women, my good Lord. Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have 'cool'd To hear a night-shrick; and my fell of hair As life were in't: I have supp'd full, with hor Direness, familiar to my Sey. The Queen, my rors; slaught'rous thoughts, Wherefore was that cry? Lord, is dead. 1 Mach. She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Enter a Messenger. Thou com'st to use thy tongue; thy story quickly. I should report that which I say I saw, Macb. Well, say, Sir. Mes. As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move. Macb. Liar, and slave! [striking him. Mes. 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, Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth, I pull in resolution; and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth: Fear not, till Birnam wood I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun, And wish the estate o'the world were now undone. Ring the alarum bell:- Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back. [Exeunt. SCENE VI. The same. A Plain before the Castle. Enter, with drums and colours, MaLCOLM, old SIWARD, MACDUFF, &c. and their army with Boughs! Mal. Now near enough; your leavy screens throw down, And show like those you are: uncle, You, worthy Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son, Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night, Macd. Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. [Exeunt. Alarums continued. SCENE VII. મ The same. Another part of the Plain. Enter MACBETH. Macb. They have tied me to a stake; I can. not fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course.— What's he, Enter young SIWARD. Yo. Siw. What is thy name? Macb. Thou'lt be afraid to hear it. Yo. Siw. No; though thou call'st thyself a Than any is in hell. hotter name Mach. My name's Macbeth. Yo. Siw. The devil himself could not pronounce More hateful to mine ear. a title Mach. No, nor more fearful. Yo. Siw. Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword I'll prove the lie thou speak'st. [They fight, and young Siward is slain. Macb. Thou wast born of woman. 3 But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born. Alarums. Enter MACDUFF. [Exit. Macd. That way the noise is: Tyrant, show thy face: If thou be'st slain, and with no stroke of mine, Or else my sword, with an unbattered edge, [Exit. Alarum. Enter MALCOLM and old SIWARD. Siw. This way, my Lord; the castle's gently render'd: The tyrant's people on both sides do fight; And little is to do. Mal. We have met with foes That strike beside us. Siw. Enter, Sir, the castle. [Exeunt. Alarum. Re-enter MACBETH. Mach. Why should I play the Roman fool, and die On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them. |