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| <H3>SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>MACBETH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Hang out our banners on the outward walls;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Till famine and the ague eat them up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Were they not forced with those that should be ours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>And beat them backward home.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A cry of women within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=8>What is that noise?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>SEYTON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>It is the cry of women, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>MACBETH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>I have almost forgot the taste of fears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>The time has been, my senses would have cool'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Cannot once start me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SEYTON</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=17>Wherefore was that cry?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>SEYTON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>The queen, my lord, is dead.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>MACBETH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>She should have died hereafter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>There would have been a time for such a word.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Creeps in this petty pace from day to day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>To the last syllable of recorded time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>And all our yesterdays have lighted fools</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>And then is heard no more: it is a tale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Signifying nothing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=31>Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>Gracious my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>I should report that which I say I saw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>But know not how to do it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>MACBETH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>Well, say, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>As I did stand my watch upon the hill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>The wood began to move.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>MACBETH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=39>Liar and slave!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Within this three mile may you see it coming;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>I say, a moving grove.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>MACBETH</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>If thou speak'st false,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>I care not if thou dost for me as much.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>I pull in resolution, and begin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>To doubt the equivocation of the fiend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>If this which he avouches does appear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>I gin to be aweary of the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>At least we'll die with harness on our back.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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