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Samuel Johnson [1778], The plays of William Shakspeare. In ten volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The second edition, Revised and Augmented (Printed for C. Bathurst [and] W. Strahan [etc.], London) [word count] [S10901].

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SCENE IV. Drum and Colours. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Siward's Son, Menteth, Cathness, Angus, and Soldiers marching.

Mal.
Cousins, I hope, the days are near at hand,
That chambers will be safe.

Ment.
We doubt it nothing.

Siw.
What wood is this before us?

Ment.
The wood of Birnam.

Mal.
Let every soldier hew him down a bough,
And bear't before him; thereby shall w shadow
The numbers of our host, and make discovery
Err in report of us.

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Sold.
It shall be done.

Siw.
We learn no other, ⁹ ^note

but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
Our setting down before't.

Mal.
'Tis his main hope:
¹ ^note

For where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt;
And none serve with him but constrained things,
Whose hearts are absent too.

Macd.
Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on

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Industrious soldiership.

Siw.
The time approaches,
That will with due decision make us know
² ^note

What we shall say we have, and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate;
But certain issue strokes must ³ ^note

arbitrate:
Towards which, advance the war. [Exeunt, marching.

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