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The Tragedy of Macbeth · c. 1606

Act V, Scene 6

by William Shakespeare 1564-1616


[The same. A Plain before the Castle.]

[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.]

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