[Stage] Malcolm, Old Siward, Young Siward, Macduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers enter marching, with a drummer and flag.
Malcolm(马尔康)
Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.
Menteith(门泰斯)
We doubt it nothing.
Siward(西沃德)
What wood is this before us?
Menteith(门泰斯)
The wood of Birnam.
Malcolm(马尔康)
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(战士们)
It shall be done.
Siward(西沃德)
We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure
Our setting down before ’t.
Malcolm(马尔康)
‘Tis his main hope:
For, where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrainèd things
Whose hearts are absent too.
Macduff(麦克德夫)
Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.
Siward(西沃德)
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,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate.
Towards which, advance the war.
[Stage] They exit, marching.