| ACT V SCENE IV | Country near Birnam wood. | |
| | Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNGSIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS,LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching | |
| MALCOLM | Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand | |
| | That chambers will be safe. | |
| MENTEITH | We doubt it nothing. | |
| SIWARD | What wood is this before us? | 5 |
| 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. | 10 |
| 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: | 15 |
| | 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 | 20 |
| | 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. | 25 |
| | Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate, | |
| | But certain issue strokes must arbitrate: | |
| | Towards which advance the war. | |
| | Exeunt, marching | |
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