ACT 1
Scene 2

...get him surgeons.
Enter Ross and Angus.

...Macbeth hath won.
They exit.

Scene 3

...and words.—Who’s here?
Enter Ross and Angus.

...down before him.
We are sent
To give thee from our royal master thanks,
Only to herald thee into his sight,
Not pay thee.


...In borrowed robes?
Who was the Thane lives yet,
But under heavy judgment bears that life
Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined
With those of Norway, or did line the rebel
With hidden help and vantage, or that with both
He labored in his country’s wrack, I know not;
But treasons capital, confessed and proved,
Have overthrown him.


...I pray you.
They step aside.

...then, enough.—Come, friends.
They exit.

Scene 4

...An absolute trust.
Enter Macbeth, Banquo, Ross, and Angus.

...a peerless kinsman.
Flourish. They exit.

Scene 6

...rest to me.
Hautboys and Torches. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross, Angus, and Attendants.

...your leave, hostess.
They exit.

ACT 5
Scene 2

...night, good doctor.
Drum and Colors. Enter Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, and Soldiers.

...the mortified man.
Near Birnam Wood
Shall we well meet them. That way are they coming.


...belt of rule.
Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands.
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach.
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.


...march towards Birnam.
They exit marching.

Scene 4

...draw me here.
Drum and Colors. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Siward’s son, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, and Soldiers, marching.

...advance the war.
They exit marching.

Scene 6

...on our back.
Drum and Colors. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, and their army, with boughs.

...blood and death.
They exit.