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:
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.

Notes and Glossary
NOTES ACT 5 Scene 4 Line 2153 Shadow. Conceal. ACT 5 Scene 4 Line 2154 Discovery. Reconaissance. ACT 5 Scene 4 Line 2162 Both more and less. 'Both those of higher and those if lower rank.' See Act iv "First Part Henry IV ." ACT 5 Scene 4 Line 2165 Let our just censures attend the true event. 'Let us defer giving our opinion upon these things until the event has actually taken place. , ACT 5 Scene 4 Line 2170 What we shall say we have, and what we owe. 'What we shall be able to say we have gained, and what we really shall then possess. ' "Owe" is almost always used by Shakespeare for 'own, , or 'possess.' ACT 5 Scene 4 Line 2171 Thoughts. ..arbitrate. Speculation can only suggest uncertain hopes, but the issue can only be decided by fighting.

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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,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:
Towards which advance the war.

Exeunt, marching

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