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Scene IV] Macbeth 111 

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

Menteith. We doubt it nothing. 

Sizvard. What wood is this before us? 

Menteith. The wood of Birnam. 

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

Soldiers. It shall be done. 

Siward. We learn no other but the confident 
tyrant 
Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure 
Our setting down before't. 

Malcolm. 'Tis his main hope: 10 

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. 

Macduff. Let our just censures 

Attend the true event, and put we on 
Industrious soldiership. 

Siward. The time approaches, 

That will with due decision make us know 
What we shall say we have and what we owe. 
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,