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<H3>SCENE IV. Country near Birnam wood.</h3>

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<i>Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG  SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
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<A NAME=1>Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand</A><br>
<A NAME=2>That chambers will be safe.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
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<A NAME=3>We doubt it nothing.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>SIWARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=4>What wood is this before us?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>MENTEITH</b></a>
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<A NAME=5>The wood of Birnam.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
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<A NAME=6>Let every soldier hew him down a bough</A><br>
<A NAME=7>And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow</A><br>
<A NAME=8>The numbers of our host and make discovery</A><br>
<A NAME=9>Err in report of us.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>Soldiers</b></a>
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<A NAME=10>It shall be done.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>SIWARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=11>We learn no other but the confident tyrant</A><br>
<A NAME=12>Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure</A><br>
<A NAME=13>Our setting down before 't.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>MALCOLM</b></a>
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<A NAME=14>'Tis his main hope:</A><br>
<A NAME=15>For where there is advantage to be given,</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Both more and less have given him the revolt,</A><br>
<A NAME=17>And none serve with him but constrained things</A><br>
<A NAME=18>Whose hearts are absent too.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>MACDUFF</b></a>
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<A NAME=19>Let our just censures</A><br>
<A NAME=20>Attend the true event, and put we on</A><br>
<A NAME=21>Industrious soldiership.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>SIWARD</b></a>
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<A NAME=22>The time approaches</A><br>
<A NAME=23>That will with due decision make us know</A><br>
<A NAME=24>What we shall say we have and what we owe.</A><br>
<A NAME=25>Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,</A><br>
<A NAME=26>But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:</A><br>
<A NAME=27>Towards which advance the war.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt, marching</i></p>
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