5.9.0.22478Retreat and flourish. Enter with drum and colors 2479Malcolm, Siward, Ross, Thanes, and Soldiers. I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.
Some must go off, and yet by these I see
5.9.32482So great a day as this is cheaply bought.
Macduff is missing, and your noble son.
Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt;
5.9.62485He only lived but till he was a man,
5.9.72486The which no sooner had his prowess confirmed
5.9.82487In the unshrinking station where he fought
But like a man he died. Then he is dead?
Ay, and brought off the field. Your cause of sorrow
5.9.112491Must not be measured by his worth, for then
It hath no end. Had he his hurts before?
Ay, on the front.
Ay, on the front. Why then, God's soldier be he.
5.9.152497I would not wish them to a fairer death;
And so his knell is knolled. He's worth more sorrow,
And that I'll spend for him. He's worth no more--
5.9.182502They say he parted well and paid his score,
5.9.192503And so God be with him. Here comes newer comfort.
Hail, King, for so thou art.
2506Behold where stands
5.9.212507Th'usurper's cursèd head. The time is free.
5.9.222508I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl
5.9.232509That speak my salutation in their minds,
Hail, King of Scotland! Hail, King of Scotland!
We shall not spend a large expense of time
5.9.272514Before we reckon with your several loves
5.9.282515And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
5.9.292516Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
5.9.302517In such an honor named. What's more to do,
5.9.312518Which would be planted newly with the time--
5.9.322519As calling home our exiled friends abroad
5.9.332520That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
5.9.352522Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
5.9.362523Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
5.9.372524Took off her life--this and what needful else
5.9.382525That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace
5.9.392526We will perform in measure, time, and place.
5.9.402527So, thanks to all at once and to each one
5.9.412528Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.