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Country near Birnam wood.
[Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH,
CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching]
MALCOLM
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Cousins,| I hope | the days | are near | at hand
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That chamb|ers will | be safe.
MENTEITH
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We doubt it | nothing.
SIWARD
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x
What wood | is this | before us?
MENTEITH
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The wood of | Birnam. ??
MALCOLM
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Let^eve|ry sol|dier hew | him down | a bough,
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And bear it | before | him, there|by shall we |
shadow
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The num|bers of | our host,| and make |
discov||ery
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Err | in report | of us.
SOLDIERS
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It shall | be done.
SIWARD
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We learn | no oth/er, but the | confident |
tyrant
T T . T ,
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Keeps still in Dun|sinane,| and will | endure
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Our set|ting down | before it.
MALCOLM
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'Tis his / main hope:
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For where | there^is | advant|age 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 | constrain|ed
things,
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Whose hearts | are ab|sent too.
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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Indus|trious sol|diership.
SIWARD
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The time | approach||es, ??
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That will | with due | deci|sion make | us know
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What we | shall say | we have,| and what | we
owe:
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Thoughts spec/ulative,| their un/sure hopes | relate,
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But cert|ain is|sue, strokes | must ar|bitrate,
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T T
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Towards | which, advance | the war.|
[Exeunt, marching]