Enter SBYTON, 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, Mal. 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, And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host, and make discovery Err in report of us. 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, Siw. Let our just censures 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. 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 forced 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, good my lord. [Exit SEYTON. Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears; The time has been my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in't: I have supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaught❜rous thoughts, Cannot once start me. Enter SEYTON. Wherefore was that cry? Sey. The queen, my lord, is dead. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Enter FIRST OFFICER. Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly. Off. Gracious, my lord, I should report that which, I But know not how to do't. Macb. Well, say, sir. say, I saw, 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 Within this three mile you may see it coming; Macb. If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, I pull in resolution; and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth: "Fear not, till Birnam wood Comes towards Dunsinane.-Arm, arm, and out!- And wish the state o' the world were now undone. [Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.-Exeunt. ŚĆENE V. A Plain before the Castle at Dunsinane. Flourish of Trumpets and Drums. MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, LENOX, and SOL DIERS, with Boughs, discovered. Mal. Now near enough; your leafy 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 tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, What's he, But, bear-like, I must fight the course.- 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 [Alarums-Exeunt. |