Flourish MALCOLM      We shall not spend a large expense of time Before we reckon with your several loves, And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen, Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland In such an honour named. What’s more to do Which would be planted newly with the time, As calling […]

Enter Macduff with Macbeth’s head MACDUFF      Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold where stands Th’usurper’s cursèd head. The time is free. I see thee compassed with thy kingdom’s pearl, That speak my salutation in their minds, Whose voices I desire aloud with mine. Hail, King of Scotland! ALL                 Hail, King of Scotland! Flourish                       (5.11.20-25) […]

SIWARD                     Then he is dead? ROSS               Ay, and brought off the field. Your cause of sorrow Must not be measured by his worth, for then It hath no end. SIWARD         Had he his hurts before? ROSS                           Ay, on the front. SIWARD         Why then, God’s soldier be he. Had I as many sons as I […]

Retreat and flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, Siward, Ross, thanes, and soldiers MALCOLM      I would the friends we miss were safe arrived. SIWARD         Some must go off; and yet by these I see So great a day as this is cheaply bought. MALCOLM      Macduff is missing, and your noble son. ROSS   Your son, […]

MACBETH                  I will not yield To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet And to be baited with the rabble’s curse. Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou opposed being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, MacDuff, And damned […]

MACBETH      Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man; And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. I’ll not fight with thee. MACDUFF                   […]

MACBETH                  Thou losest labour. As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests. I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To one of woman born. MACDUFF                  Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell […]

Enter Macbeth MACBETH      Why should I play the Roman fool, and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them. Enter Macduff MACDUFF                  Turn, hell-hound, turn. MACBETH      Of all men else I have avoided thee. But get thee back; my soul is too much charged With blood of thine […]

Enter Malcolm and Siward SIWARD         This way, my lord. The castle’s gently rendered. The tyrant’s people on both sides do fight. The noble thanes do bravely in the war. The day almost itself professes yours, And little is to do. MALCOLM      We have met with foes That strike beside us. SIWARD                     Enter, sir, the castle. […]

Alarums. Enter Macduff MACDUFF      That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face. If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still. I cannot strike at wretched kerns whose arms Are hired to bear their staves; either thou, Macbeth, Or else my sword with an […]