SCENE VI
Dunsinane. Before the castle.
Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM,
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.1
SIWARD
Fare you well.
Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,
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.2
Exeunt
FOOTNOTES
1 Uncle Siward, you and your son will
lead the first battle. Macduff and I will do the rest according to
our battle plan.
2 Blow all the trumpets. They shall
announce the news of blood and death.
SUMMARY
The battle starts. Malcolm orders the English soldiers to throw
down their boughs and draw their swords.
