Macbeth
| ACT V 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, | 5 | |
| According to our order. | ||
| 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. | ||
| [Exeunt] | ||
Next: Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 7
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Explanatory Notes for Act 5, Scene 6
From Macbeth. Ed. Thomas Marc Parrott. New York: American Book Co.
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2. show like those you are, appear in your true shapes.
7. Do we but find, if we can but meet.
7. to-night. It seems as if they had planned to assault Dunsinane toward the end of the day. There is a picturesque justice in Macbeth’s meeting his fate in the gathering gloom of twilight.
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How to cite the explanatory notes:Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Ed. Thomas Marc Parrott. New York: American Book Co., 1904.