LENNOX
For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file
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:
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
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
Upon a dwarfish thief.

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Notes and Glossary
NOTES The drum and the colours change the mood at once from dark meditation to practical activity. This scene and scenes 4 and 6 are brisk and businesslike. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2039 His uncle Siward. Holinshed mentions that Duncan had two sons by his wife, who was the daughter of Siward, Earl of Northumberland. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2041 Bleeding. Bloody. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2042 Mortified. Dead. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2046 File. List. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2048 Unrough. 'Unbearded', 'young'. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2055 Belt of rule. This might suggest a medical regimen as well as the rule of the kingdom. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2060 Nothing in love. Not at all from affection for him. ACT 5 Scene 2 Line 2069 The medicine. 'The healer, , 'the physician, , Here used figuratively, in reference to Malcolm. See Act ii "All's Well."

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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
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
Or so much as it needs,
To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.
Make we our march towards Birnam.

Exeunt, marching

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