MACBETH · COMPLETE PLAY

Act V, Scene VI

The same. A Plain before the Castle.

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Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Macduff and their
Army, with boughs.

MALCOLM.
Now near enough. Your leafy screens throw down,
And show like those you are.—You, worthy uncle,
Shall with my cousin, your right noble son,
Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we
Shall take upon’s what else remains to do,
According to our order.

SIWARD.
Fare you well.—
Do we but find the tyrant’s power tonight,
Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.

MACDUFF.
Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,

Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.

[Exeunt.]

Text: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Project Gutenberg eBook 1533. Public-domain reading edition.