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Macbeth.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 5, Scene 5. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Macbeth<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with James Shapiro<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Click here to open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to open\u00a0a First Folio Version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

40. \u00a0If thou speak’st false,<\/span>
\n41. \u00a0Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,<\/span>
\n42. \u00a0Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,<\/span>
\n43. \u00a0I care not if thou dost for me as much.<\/span>
\n44. \u00a0I pull in resolution, and begin<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n 45. \u00a0To doubt the equivocation of the fiend<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\n46. \u00a0That lies like truth:<\/strong><\/em> ‘Fear not, till Birnam wood<\/span>
\n47. \u00a0Do come to Dunsinane:’ and now a wood<\/span>
\n48. \u00a0Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!<\/span>
\n49. \u00a0If this which he avouches does appear,<\/span>
\n50. \u00a0There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.<\/span>
\n51. \u00a0I gin to be aweary of the sun,<\/span>
\n52. \u00a0And wish the estate o’ the world were now undone.<\/span>
\n53. \u00a0Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!<\/span>
\n54. \u00a0At least we’ll die with harness on our back.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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