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Original Text | Modern Text |
| Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM ,
SIWARD , MACDUFF , and their army,
with boughs
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MALCOLM , old SIWARD ,
MACDUFF , and their army enter carrying branches, with a
drummer and flag.
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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
5 Shall take upon ’s what else remains to do,
According to our order.
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MALCOLM We’re close enough now. Throw down these branches and
show them who you really are. Uncle Siward, you and your son will
lead the first battle. Brave Macduff and I will do the rest,
according to our battle plan.
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SIWARD Fare you well.
Do we but find the tyrant’s power tonight,
Let us be beaten if we cannot fight.
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SIWARD Good luck. If we meet Macbeth’s army tonight, let us be
beaten if we cannot fight.
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MACDUFF 10 Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
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MACDUFF Blow all the trumpets. They loudly announce the news of blood and
death.
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| Exeunt
| They exit.
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Original Text | Modern Text |
| Drum and colors. Enter MALCOLM ,
SIWARD , MACDUFF , and their army,
with boughs
|
MALCOLM , old SIWARD ,
MACDUFF , and their army enter carrying branches, with a
drummer and flag.
|
|
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
5 Shall take upon ’s what else remains to do,
According to our order.
|
MALCOLM We’re close enough now. Throw down these branches and
show them who you really are. Uncle Siward, you and your son will
lead the first battle. Brave Macduff and I will do the rest,
according to our battle plan.
|
|
SIWARD Fare you well.
Do we but find the tyrant’s power tonight,
Let us be beaten if we cannot fight.
|
SIWARD Good luck. If we meet Macbeth’s army tonight, let us be
beaten if we cannot fight.
|
|
MACDUFF 10 Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
|
MACDUFF Blow all the trumpets. They loudly announce the news of blood and
death.
|
| Exeunt
| They exit.
|
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