"Fear not, Macbeth; no man, that's born of woman, Shall e'er have power on thee."-Then fly, false Thanes, And mingle with the English epicures: The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt, nor shake with fear. Enter SECOND OFFICER, R. The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! 2d Off. There are ten thousand- 2d Off. Soldiers, sir. Macb. Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, [Exit Officer, R. When I behold-Seyton, I say!--This push Enter SEYTON, R. Sey. What is your gracious pleasure? Macb. What news more? Sey. All is confirmed, my lord, which was reported. Macb. I'll fight, till from my bones my flesk be hasked Give me my armour. Sey. 'Tis not needed yet. Macb. I'll put it on.— Send out more horses, skirr the country round; Enter PHYSICIAN, L. Hang those that talk of fear. How does your patient, doctor? [Exit Seyton. Y Phy. Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, Mach. Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; Phy Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Enter SEYTON, R., 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:~ If thou could'st, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, 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, Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. [Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.-Exeunt R. SCENE III.-Birnam Forest.-A March. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, LENOX, Rosse, and SOLDIERS, L. U. E. 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 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 given, 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 Towards which, advance the war. [March.-Exeunt into the Wood, R. SCENE IV.-The Ramparts of the Castle at Dunsinane.— Flourish of Trumpets and Drums. Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and ATTENDANTS, L. Were they not forced with those that should be ours, What is that noise? [A cry within of women, L. Sey. It is the cry of women, good my lord. Exit Seyton, L. Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of fears; The time has been, my senses would have cooled 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 Re-enter SEYTON. Wherefore was that cry? Sey. The queen, my lord, is dead. Macb. She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word.- Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Enter FIRST Officer, R. Thou comest to use thy tongue: thy story quickly I should report that which, I say, I saw, Macb. Well, say, sir. 1st Offi. [Kneeling.] As I did stand my watch apon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move. Mach. Liar and slave! 1st Offi. 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 care not if thou dost for me as much :— I pull in resolution; and begin, To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth :-"Fear not, 'till Birnam wood Comes toward Dunsinane.-Arm, arm, and out!- I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun, appear, And wish the state o'the world were now undone.- [Flourish of Trumpets and Drums.-Exeunt, R. 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 leafy screens throw down, And show like those you are:-You, worthy uncle, Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff, and we, Len. This way, my lords, the castle's gently rendered. Macd. Make all our trumpets speak: give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. [Alarums-Exeunt several ways. SCENE VI.—A Court in the Castle of Dunsinane.—Alarums. Enter MACBETH, from the gates. Mach. They have tied 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. [Llarums.-Exit, L. Enter MACDUFF, R. Macd. That way the noise is :-Tyrant, show thy face If thou be'st slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still. I cannot strike at wretched kernes, whose arms |