SCENE IV. COUNTRY NEAR BIRNAM WOOD.
Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG SI- WARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching
MALCOLM
Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand 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 And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host and make discovery Err in report of us.
SOLDIERS
It shall be done.
SIWARD
We learn no other but the con๏ฌdent tyrant Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure Our setting down before 't.
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 constrained things Whose hearts are absent too.
MACDUFF
Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on Industrious soldiership.
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.
Exeunt, marching
