ACT V.
Scene I. Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.
Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman.
no truth in your report. When was it she last walked?
her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock
her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon't, read it, 5
afterwards seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this
while in a most fast sleep.
the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! In this
slumbery agitation, besides her walking and other actual 10
performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say?
to confirm my speech.
Enter Lady Macbeth, with a taper.
This is her very guise, and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe
her; stand close.
'tis her command. 20
washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a
quarter of an hour.
from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.[4510] 30
why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord,[4511]
fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows[4512][4513]
it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who[4513]
would have thought the old man to have had so much 35
blood in him?[4514]
now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more
o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this[4516] 40
starting.
not.
that: heaven knows what she has known. 45
perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh,
oh, oh!
the dignity of the whole body.
known those which have walked in their sleep who have[4520] 55
[Pg 505] died holily in their beds.
look not so pale: I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried;[4521]
he cannot come out on 's grave.[4522]
come, come, come, come, give me your hand: what's done
cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed. [Exit.[4523]
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:
More needs she the divine than the physician.
God, God forgive us all! Look after her;[4524] 70
Remove from her the means of all annoyance,
And still keep eyes upon her. So good night:
My mind she has mated and amazed my sight:[4525]
I think, but dare not speak.
[Exeunt.[4526]
Scene II. The country near Dunsinane.[4527]
Drum and colours. Enter Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, and Soldiers.[4528]
His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:[4529]
Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes[4530][4531]
[Pg 506] Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm[4530][4532]
Excite the mortified man.[4530]
Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,
And many unrough youths, that even now[4535] 10
Protest their first of manhood.[4536]
Some say he's mad; others, that lesser hate him,[4537]
Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,
He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause[4538] 15
Within the belt of rule.
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 20
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
His pester'd senses to recoil and start,
When all that is within him does condemn
Itself for being there?
To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:
Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,[4540]
And with him pour we, in our country's purge,
[Pg 507] Each drop of us.
To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds. 30
Make we our march towards Birnam. [Exeunt, marching.[4541]
Scene III. Dunsinane. A room in the castle.[4542]
Enter Macbeth, Doctor, and Attendants.
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane[4543]
I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?[4544]
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know[4545]
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:[4546] 5
'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly, false thanes,[4547]
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by and the heart I bear[4548]
Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.[4549] 10
Enter a Servant.
[Pg 508]
Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch? 15
Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine
Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?[4553]
Seyton!—I am sick at heart,[4555][4556]
When I behold—Seyton, I say!—This push[4555] 20
Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.[4557]
I have lived long enough: my way of life[4558]
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 25
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.[4559]
Seyton!
Enter Seyton.
Give me my armour.
Send out moe horses, skirr the country round;[4563] 35
Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.[4564]
How does your patient, doctor?
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies,
[Pg 509] That keep her from her rest.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,[4566] 40
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,[4567]
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff[4568]
Which weighs upon the heart?
Must minister to himself.[4569]
Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff.[4570]
Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast 50
The water of my land, find her disease
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,[4571]
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again. Pull't off, I say.
What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,[4572] 55
Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?
Makes us hear something.
I will not be afraid of death and bane
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.[4573] 60
Scene IV. Country near Birnam wood.
Drum and colours. Enter Malcolm, old Siward and his Son, Macduff, Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, Ross, and Soldiers, marching.
That chambers will be safe.
And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow 5
The numbers of our host, and make discovery
Err in report of us.
Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
Our setting down before 't.
For where there is advantage to be given,[4579][4580]
Both more and less have given him the revolt,[4579]
And none serve with him but constrained things
Whose hearts are absent too.
Attend the true event, and put we on[4581] 15
[Pg 511] Industrious soldiership.
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: 20
Towards which advance the war. [Exeunt, marching.
Scene V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.[4582]
Enter Macbeth, Seyton, and Soldiers, with drum and colours.[4583]
The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie
Till famine and the ague eat them up:
Were they not forced with those that should be ours,[4585] 5
We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And beat them backward home. [A cry of women within.[4586]
What is that noise?
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd[4588] 10
To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in 't: I have supp'd full with horrors;[4589]
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
[Pg 512] Cannot once start me.
Re-enter Seyton.
There would have been a time for such a word.[4592][4593]
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,[4594] 20
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools[4595]
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle![4596]
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player[4597]
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage[4597] 25
And then is heard no more: it is a tale[4597]
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Enter a Messenger.
I should report that which I say I saw,[4599]
But know not how to do it.[4600]
I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,[4601]
The wood began to move.
[Pg 513]
Within this three mile may you see it coming;[4603]
I say, a moving grove.
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,[4604]
Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,[4605] 40
I care not if thou dost for me as much.
I pull in resolution, and begin[4606]
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood[4601]
Do come to Dunsinane;' and now a wood 45
Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out![4607]
If this which he avouches does appear,[4608]
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.[4608][4609]
I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun,[4608][4610]
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.[4608][4611] 50
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack![4612]
At least we'll die with harness on our back. [Exeunt.
Scene VI. Dunsinane. Before the castle.[4613]
Drum and colours. Enter Malcolm, old Siward, Macduff, and their Army, with boughs.[4614]
And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,
Shall, with my cousin, your right noble son,
[Pg 514] Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we[4616]
Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,[4617] 5
According to our order.
Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,
Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. [Exeunt.[4619]10
Scene VII. Another part of the field.[4620]
Alarums. EnterMacbeth.[4621]
But bear-like I must fight the course. What's he
That was not born of woman? Such a one
Am I to fear, or none.
Enter young Siward.[4623]
Than any is in hell.
More hateful to mine ear.
[Pg 515]
I'll prove the lie thou speak'st.
[They fight, and young Siward is slain.[4626]
But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born. [Exit.
Alarums. Enter Macduff.
If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine, 15
My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.
I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
Are hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,[4627]
Or else my sword, with an unbatter'd edge,[4628]
I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be; 20
By this great clatter, one of greatest note
Seems bruited: let me find him, fortune![4629][4630]
And more I beg not.[4629] [Exit. Alarums.[4631]
Enter Malcolm and old Siward.
The tyrant's people on both sides do fight; 25
The noble thanes do bravely in the war;
The day almost itself professes yours,[4632]
And little is to do.
That strike beside us.
[Exeunt. Alarum.[4634]
Scene VIII. Another part of the field.[4635]
Enter Macbeth.[4636]
On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes[4637]
Do better upon them.
Enter Macduff.[4638]
But get thee back; my soul is too much charged 5
With blood of thine already.
My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out! [They fight.[4640]
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed: 10
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb 15
Untimely ripp'd.
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense; 20
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
[Pg 517] And break it to our hope. I 'll not fight with thee.[4641]
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, 25
Painted upon a pole, and underwrit,[4642]
'Here may you see the tyrant.'[4643]
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,[4644] 30
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,[4645]
Yet I will try the last: before my body
I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff;
And damn'd be him that first cries 'Hold, enough!'[4646]
[Exeunt, fighting. Alarums.[4647]
Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, Malcolm, old Siward, Ross, the other Thanes, and Soldiers.[4648]
So great a day as this is cheaply bought.
He only lived but till he was a man; 40
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd[4650]
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.
[Pg 518]
Must not be measured by his worth, for then 45
It hath no end.
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death:
And so his knell is knoll'd.
And that I'll spend for him.
They say he parted well and paid his score:
And so God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.[4653]
Re-enter Macduff, with Macbeth's head.[4654]
The usurper's cursed head: the time is free: 55
I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,[4656]
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, King of Scotland!
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,[4659]
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
[Pg 519] In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time, 65
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands[4660] 70
Took off her life; this, and what needful else[4661]
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace[4662]
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.[4663] 75
[Flourish. Exeunt.
FOOTNOTES:
[4506] two] too F1.
[4507] report] repeat Warburton conj.
[4508] Lady Macbeth,] Rowe. Lady, Ff. Queen, Staunton.
[4509] sense is] Rowe. sense are Ff. sense' are Dyce (S. Walker conj.).
[4510] [taking out his Tables. Capell.
satisfy] fortifie Warburton.
[4511] murky.] murky! Steevens. See note (IX).
[4512] afeard] afraid Rowe.
[4513] fear who ... account?] Theobald. feare? who ... accompt: F1F2. fear? who ... account: F3F4. fear who ... account—Rowe (ed. 2).
[4514] him?] Rowe. him. Ff.
[4515] [Sings. Nicholson conj.
[4516] this] F1. om. F2F3F4.
[4517] Go ... not.] Prose in Pope. Two lines in Ff.
[4518] of the blood] F1F2. of bloud F3F4.
[4519] well,—] well— Rowe. well. Ff.
[4520] which ... who] who ... to A. Hunter.
[4521] Banquo's] Duncan's Hunter conj.
[4522] on's] of his Pope. of's Capell.
[4523] [Exit.] Exit Lady. Ff.
[4524] God, God] Good God Pope.
[4525] she has] she 'as Pope.
[4526] [Exeunt.] Exeunt severally. Capell.
[4527] The country ...] Capell. A Field with a Wood at Distance. Rowe.
[4528] Caithness,] Dyce. Cathnes. Ff.
and] om. Ff.
[4529] Siward] Theobald. Seyward Ff.
[4530] for ... man.] Omit as spurious, Anon. conj.
[4531] causes] Quoted cause in Theobald's note.
[4532] Would ... alarm] F1. Omitted in F2F3F4.
[4533] mortified] milkiest Anon. conj.
[4534] I have] I've Pope.
[4535] unrough] Theobald. unruffe F1F2. unruff F3F4. unruff'd Pope. unwrought Mason conj. untough Collier MS.
[4536] tyrant?] F4. tyrant. F1F2F3.
[4537] hate] F1F2. hates F3F4.
[4538] cause] course Singer, ed. 2 (Collier MS. and S. Walker conj.). corse Anon. conj.
[4539] there?] Pope. there. Ff.
[4540] medicine] Med'cine Ff. medecin Steevens (Warburton conj.). med'cin Capell.
[4541] Make we] Make me Theobald (ed. 1). Make up Theobald (ed. 2).
Birnam] Birnan F4.
[Exeunt, marching.] Ff. Exeunt. Rowe.
[4542] Dunsinane. A room in the castle.] Capell. The Castle. Rowe. Dunsinane. Pope.
[4543] Birnam] F3 F4. Byrnane F1. Byrnam F2.
[4544] taint] faint S. Walker conj.
[4545] The spirits] Spirits Pope.
[4546] consequences have] consequents, Steevens (1793).
me thus] it Pope. me Capell.
[4547] upon] on Steevens (1793).
Then fly] Fly Pope.
[4548] sway] stay Anon. conj.
[4549] Enter a Servant.] F3 F4. Enter Servant. F1 F2. Enter an Attendant, hastily. Capell.
[4550] loon] F3. loone F1 F2. lown F4.
[4551] goose] ghost Anon. apud Rann conj.
[4552] is] are Rowe.
thousand—] Rowe. thousand. Ff.
[4553] whey-face] whay-face Ff.
[4554] [Exit Servant.] Dyce. om. Ff.
[4555] Seyton ... say!—] Pointed as in Rowe. Seyton, I ... hart, ... behold: Seyton, I say, Ff.
[4556] I am] I'm Pope.
[4557] cheer] F3 F4. cheere F1 F2. chair Dyce (Percy conj.).
disseat] Steevens (Jennens and Capell conj.). dis-eate F1. disease F2 F3 F4.
[4558] way] May Steevens, 1778, (Johnson conj.).
of] off Jackson conj.
[4559] and dare] but dare Reed (1803, 1813, 1821).
[4560] Seyton!] om. Rowe.
[4561] What's] What is Pope.
[4562] be] F1. is F2 F3 F4.
[4563] moe] F1 F2. more F3 F4.
skirr] scour A. Hunter.
[4564] talk of] F1 stand in F2 F3 F4.
[4565] Cure her] F2 F3 F4. Cure F1. Make cure Anon. conj.
of] F1 F2. from F3 F4.
[4566] not] om. Badham conj.
a mind] minds Pope.
[4567] Raze] F1 F2. Raise F3. Rase F4.
[4568] stuffd ... stuff] cloggd ... stuff or stuffd ... load Staunton conj.
stuffd] stufft F1. stuft F2 F3 F4. full Pope. foul A. Hunter (Steevens conj.). fraught Anon. conj. pressd Anon. conj.
stuff] F3 F4. stuffe F1 F2. tuft Jackson conj. grief Collier (Collier MS.). matter Keightley. slough Anon. conj.
[4569] to] F1. unto F2 F3 F4.
[4570] mine] F1 F2 F3. my F4.
[4571] pristine] pristine F1.
[4572] cyme] Cyme F1 Caeny F2 F3. senna F4. clysme Badham conj sene Wellesley conj. sirrah Bullock conj.
[4573] Birnam] Birnane. F1.
[Exit. Steevens (1793). Exeunt all except Doctor. Dyce.
[4574] [Aside] Hanmer.
[4575] [Exeunt.] Exit. Steevens (1793). Country ...] Edd. (Globe ed.). A Wood. Rowe. Birnam Wood. Pope. Plains leading to Dunsinane; a Wood adjacent. Capell. om. Steevens.
Drums and colours.] Ff. om. Rowe.
Enter ...] Enter Malcolme, Seyward, Macduffe, Seywards Sonne, Menteth, Cathnes, Angus, and Soldiers Marching. Ff.
[4576] Cousins] Cosins F1 F2. Cousin F3 F4.
[4577] Birnam] F3 F4. Byrnam F2. Birnane F1.
[4578] confident] confin'd Warburton.
[4579] where ... have given] when ... do give A. Hunter.
[4580] advantage to be given] a 'vantage to be gone Johnson conj. advantage to be gone Capell. advantage to be got Steevens conj. advantage to be taken Keightley (Chedworth conj.). advantage to be gain'd Singer conj. (withdrawn). advantage to be gotten Collier (Collier MS.).
[4581] Let ... Attend] F1. Let our best censures Before F2 F3 F4. Set our best censures Before Rowe. Let our best centuries Before:— Jackson conj.
[4582] Dunsinane. Within....] Malone. The Castle. Rowe. Dunsinane. Pope. The Castle of Dunsinane. Theobald. Before Dunsinane. Hanmer. Dunsinane. A Plat-form within the Castle. Capell.
[4583] ... drums and colours.] ... Drum and Dolours. F3.... Drums and Colours. F4.
[4584] banners on ... walls;] banners on ... walls, Ff. banners; on ... walls Anon. conj.
[4585] forced] 'forc'd Hanmer. farc'd Collier (Collier MS.).
[4586] [A cry ...] A Cry within of Women. Ff (after noise?).
[4587] [Exit.] Dyce. om. Ff. Retires. Collier conj. Enter an Attendant, who whispers Seyton. Anon. conj.
[4588] cool'd] 'coil'd Malone conj. quail'd Collier (Collier MS.).
[4589] sup'd full] surfeited Hanmer.
[4590] once] now Hanmer.
Re-enter Seyton.] Dyce. om. Ff.
[4591] my lord] om. Pope.
[4592] died hereafter; There] died: hereafter There Jackson conj.
[4593] time ... word.] time for—Such a world!— Johnson conj. (withdrawn).
[4594] Creeps] Creep Capell conj.
[4595] fools] foules Hunter conj.
[4596] dusty] F1. study F2 F3 F4. dusky Hanmer (Theobald conj.).
[4597] A poor ... more:] Omitted by A. Hunter.
[4598] Gracious my] F1. My gracious F2 F3 F4.
[4599] I say] I'd say Hanmer. om. Keightley, reading Gracious ... which as one line.
[4600] do it] Knight. doo't F1 F2. do't F3 F4.
say] say it Pope.
[4601] Birnam] F4. Byrnane F1. Byrnam F2 F3.
[4602] [Striking him. Rowe.
[4603] may you] F1 F2. you may F3 F4.
[4604] shalt] shall F1.
[4605] cling] clem Anon. conj.
[4606] pull] pall A. Hunter (Johnson conj.).
[4607] toward] towards Warburton.
[4608] If ... undone.] Omit as spurious, Anon. conj.
[4609] nor flying] F1 F2. no flying F3 F4.
[4610] a-weary] F1. a weary F2 F3 F4. weary Johnson.
[4611] the estate] th' estate Ff. the state Pope.
[4612] Ring ... bell] A stage direction, Theobald conj.
[4613] Dunsinane. Before ...] Before Macbeth's Castle. Rowe. Before Dunsinane. Pope.
[4614] Drum and colours.] Ff. om. Rowe.
Enter ... old Siward ...] Enter ... Seyward ... Ff.
[4615] Now ... down,] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
leavy] Ff. leafy Collier.
[4616] worthy] brave Pope.
[4617] upon 's] upon us Capell.
[4618] Do we] Let us Pope.
[4619] [Exeunt.] Capell. Exeunt. Alarums continued. Ff.
[4620] Scene VII.] Scena Septima. Ff. Rowe, Pope, &c. continue the Scene.
Another ...] The same. Another Part of the Plain. Capell.
[4621] Alarums.] Alarums, as of a Battle join'd. Skirmishings. Capell. Alarums continued. Ff (at end of Scene vi).
[4622] They have] They've Pope.
[4623] Enter young Siward.] Theobald. Enter young Seyward. Ff (yong F2).
[4624] hotter] hoter F1.
[4625] abhorred] F1. thou abhorred F2 F3 F4.
[4626] [They fight ...] Fight, and young Seyward slaine. F1 F2 (yong F2). Fight, and young Seyward's slain. F3 F4.
[4627] either] or Pope.
[4628] unbatter'd] Rowe. unbattered F1 F3 F4. unbatterred F2.
[4629] Seems ... And] As in Ff. One line in Hanmer.
[4630] bruited] bruited there Steevens conj.
find] but find Steevens conj.
[4631] Alarums.] Ff. Alarum. Rowe (ed. 2).
old Siward.] Seyward. Ff. Siward. Theobald. old Seyward. Capell.
[4632] itself professes] professes itself Johnson.
[4633] We have] We've Pope.
[4634] Alarum.] Ff. Alarums. Capell.
[4635] Scene viii]. Dyce. Scene VII. Pope. Scene continued in Ff.
... field.] ... plain. Dyce.
[4636] Enter ...] Ff. Re-enter ... Capell.
[4637] whiles] whilst Rowe.
[4638] Enter ...] Ff. Re-enter ... Capell.
[4639] I have] I've Pope.
[4640] [They fight.] Malone. Fight: Alarum. Ff. Fight. Capell.
[4641] I'll] I will S. Walker conj., ending the lines hope!... coward.
[4642] pole] cloth A. Hunter.
[4643] I will] I'll Pope.
[4644] Birnam] F4. Byrnane F1. Byrnam F2F3.
[4645] being] be Theobald.
[4646] him] he Pope.
[4647] [Exeunt, fighting. Alarums.] Pope. Exeunt fighting. Alarums. Enter Fighting, and Macbeth slaine. Ff. Exeunt, fighting. Capell.
[4648] Retreat. Flourish.] Retreat, and Flourish. Ff.
old Siward,] Seyward, Ff. Siward, Theobald, old Seyward, Capell.
the other Thanes,] Thanes, Ff. Lenox, Angus, Cathness, Menteth, Malone.
[4649] Scene VIII. Pope.
[4650] his prowess] he well A. Hunter.
[4651] he is] is he Pope.
[4652] cause] course Anon. conj.
[4653] And so] So Pope. And Collier MS.
be with] b' wi' Anon. conj.
[4654] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter ... Ff.
...head.] Ff.... head on a pole. Malone (from Holinshed).... head on a pike. A. Hunter.
[4655] Hail ... stands] One line in Rowe. Two in Ff.
[Sticking the pike in the ground. Collier (Collier MS.).
[4656] pearl] F3F4. pearle F1F2. peers Rowe. pearls Anon. conj.
[4657] Scotland!] Scotland! hail! Hanmer.
All. Hail,] All. All hail, Anon. conj.
Hail ... Scotland!] King of Scotland, hail! Steevens (1793).
[4658] spend] make Keightley.
expense] extent Steevens conj. expanse Singer conj.
[4659] My] om. Pope.
[4660] self and] self-laid Anon. conj.
[4661] what] what's Hanmer.
[4662] Grace] heaven Pope. God Warburton.
[4663] Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff.
