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Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM , SIWARD , MACDUFF , Siward’s SON , MENTEITH , CAITHNESS , ANGUS , LENNOX , ROSS , and SOLDIERS , marching
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Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM , SIWARD , MACDUFF , Siward’s SON , MENTEITH , CAITHNESS , ANGUS , LENNOX , ROSS , and SOLDIERS , marching
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MALCOLM Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.
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MALCOLM Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.
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MENTEITH We doubt it nothing.
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MENTEITH We doubt it nothing.
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SIWARD What wood is this before us?
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SIWARD What wood is this before us?
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MENTEITH The wood of Birnam.
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MENTEITH The wood of Birnam.
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MALCOLM Let every soldier hew him down a bough
5 And bear ’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host and make discovery
Err in report of us.
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MALCOLM 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.
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SOLDIERS It shall be done.
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SOLDIERS It shall be done.
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SIWARD We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure
10 Our setting down before ’t.
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SIWARD We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure
Our setting down before ’t.
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MALCOLM 'Tis his main hope:
For, where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrainèd things
Whose hearts are absent too.
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MALCOLM 'Tis his main hope:
For, where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrainèd things
Whose hearts are absent too.
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MACDUFF Let our just censures
15 Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.
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MACDUFF Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.
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SIWARD The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
20 But certain issue strokes must arbitrate.
Towards which, advance the war.
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SIWARD The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate.
Towards which, advance the war.
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Exeunt, marching
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Exeunt, marching
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM , SIWARD , MACDUFF , Siward’s SON , MENTEITH , CAITHNESS , ANGUS , LENNOX , ROSS , and SOLDIERS , marching
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Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM , SIWARD , MACDUFF , Siward’s SON , MENTEITH , CAITHNESS , ANGUS , LENNOX , ROSS , and SOLDIERS , marching
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MALCOLM Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.
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MALCOLM Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.
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MENTEITH We doubt it nothing.
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MENTEITH We doubt it nothing.
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SIWARD What wood is this before us?
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SIWARD What wood is this before us?
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MENTEITH The wood of Birnam.
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MENTEITH The wood of Birnam.
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MALCOLM Let every soldier hew him down a bough
5 And bear ’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host and make discovery
Err in report of us.
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MALCOLM 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.
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SOLDIERS It shall be done.
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SOLDIERS It shall be done.
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SIWARD We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure
10 Our setting down before ’t.
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SIWARD We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure
Our setting down before ’t.
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MALCOLM 'Tis his main hope:
For, where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrainèd things
Whose hearts are absent too.
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MALCOLM 'Tis his main hope:
For, where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrainèd things
Whose hearts are absent too.
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MACDUFF Let our just censures
15 Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.
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MACDUFF Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.
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SIWARD The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
20 But certain issue strokes must arbitrate.
Towards which, advance the war.
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SIWARD The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate.
Towards which, advance the war.
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Exeunt, marching
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Exeunt, marching
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