Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.
Exeunt [all but the Doctor].
DOCTOR
Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,
Profit again should hardly draw me here.
[Exit.]
V.4Drum and Colors. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Siward's Son, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, [Lennox, Ross,] and Soldiers, marching.
MALCOLM
Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
2 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
5 And bear't before him. Thereby shall we shadow 6 The numbers of our host and make discovery Err in report of us.
SOLDIER It shall be done.
SIWARD
We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure
10 Our setting down before't.
MALCOLM 'Tis his main hope,
11 For where there is advantage to be given 12 Both more and less have given him the revolt, And none serve with him but constrained things
14 Whose hearts are absent too.
MACDUFF Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on15
Industrious soldiership.
SIWARD The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know