The Tragedy of Macbeth: ACT V
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle. SCENE II. The country near Dunsinane. SCENE III. Dunsinane. A room in the castle. SCENE IV. Country near Birnam wood. SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle. SCENE VI. Dunsinane. Before the castle. SCENE VII. Another part of the field. SCENE VIII. Another part of the field. About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE II. The country near Dunsinane. Drum and colours. Enter MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, and Soldiers MENTEITH       The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,       His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:       Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes       Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm 5     Excite the mortified man. ANGUS       Near Birnam wood       Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming. CAITHNESS       Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother? LENNOX       For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file 10    Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,       And many unrough youths that even now       Protest their first of manhood. MENTEITH       What does the tyrant? CAITHNESS       Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies: 15    Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him       Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,       He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause       Within the belt of rule. ANGUS       Now does he feel 20    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 25    Upon a dwarfish thief. MENTEITH       Who then shall blame       His pester'd senses to recoil and start,       When all that is within him does condemn       Itself for being there? CAITHNESS 30    Well, march we on,       To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:       Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,       And with him pour we in our country's purge       Each drop of us. LENNOX 35    Or so much as it needs,       To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.       Make we our march towards Birnam. Exeunt, marching Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene