Масв. Well, fay, fir. MES. As I did ftand my watch upon the hill, I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move. MACB. Liar, and flave! [Ariking him. MES. Let me endure your wrath, if't be not fo: Within this three mile may you fee it coming; I fay, a moving grove. Масв. If thou speak'st false, 4 Till famine cling thee:] Clung, in the northern counties, fignifies any thing that is fhrivelled or fhrunk up. By famine, the intestines are, as it were, ftuck together. In The Roman Actor by Maffinger, the fame word, though differently fpelt, appears to be ufed: my entrails "Are clamm'd with keeping a continual faft.' Again, in Pierce's Supererogation, or a New Praife of the Old Affe, &c. 1593: "Who would have thought, or could have imagined, to have found the wit of Pierce fo ftarved and clunged?" Again, in George Whetstone's Caftle of Delight, 1576: My wither'd corps with deadly cold is clung." Again, in Heywood's Pleafant Dialogues aud Dramas, 1637: "His entrails with long faft and hunger clung Again, in Golding's verfion of Ovid's Metamorphofis, Book VII: old Eacus alfo, cloong "With age To cling likewife fignifies, to gripe, to comprefs, to embrace. So, in The Revenger's Tragedy, 1607: flide from the mother, "And cling the daughter." Again, in Antonio's Revenge, 1602: "And found even cling'd in fenfuality." Again, in Northward Hoe, 1607: "I will never fee a white flea, before I will cling you." Ben Jonfon ufes the word clem in the Poetafter, Act I. fc. ii: "I cannot eat ftones and turfs; fay, what will he clem me and my followers? afk him an he will clem me." To be clem'd is a Staf I care not if thou doft for me as much.- To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth: Fear not, till Birnam wood fordshire expreffion, which means, to be ftarved: and there is likewise a Cheshire proverb: " You been like Smithwick, either clem'd or bursten." `Again, in Antonio and Mellida : "Now lions' half-clem'd entrails roar for food." In the following inftances, the exact meaning of this word is not very clear: "Andrea flain! then weapon cling my breast." First part of Jeronimo, 1605. "Although my confcience hath my courage cleng'd, "And knows what valour was employ'd in vain." Lord Sterline's Darius, 1603. Again, in The Sadler's Play, among the Chester Whitfun plays, Mf. Harl. 1013, p. 154, where the burial of our Saviour is spoken of: "That now is clongen under clay." I have given thefe varieties of the word for the fake of any ture lexicographer, or commentator on ancient authors. fu Mr. Whalley however obferves, that till famine cling thee, means-till it dry thee up, or exhauft all thy moisture. Clung wood is wood of which the fap is entirely dried or fpent. Clung and clem, fays he, are terms of very different meaning. STEEVENS. 5 I pull in refolution; and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth:] Though this is the reading of all the editions, yet, as it is a phrafe without either example, elegance, or propriety, it is furely better to read: I pall in refolution,‐ I languish in my conftancy, my confidence begins to forfake me. It is fcarcely neccifary to obferve how eafily pall might be changed into pull by a negligent writer, or mistaken for it by an unfkilful prinWith this emendation Dr. Warburton and Mr. Heath concur. JOHNSON. ter. There is furely no need of change; for Shakspeare, who made Trinculo, in The Tempeft, fay, "I will let loofe my opinion," might have written, I pull in my refolution. He had permitted his courage (like a fiery horfe) to carry him to the brink of a precipice, but, feeing his danger, refolves to check that confidence to which he had given the rein before. STERVENS. Do come to Dunfinane ;-and now a wood Comes toward Dunfinane.-Arm, arm, and out!If this, which he avouches, does appear, There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here. I 'gin to be a-weary of the fun," And with the eftate o'the world were now undone.Ring the alarum bell :-Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back. [Exeunt. SCENE VI. The fame. A Plain before the Cafile. Enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, old SIWARD, MACDUFF, &c. and their Army, with Boughs. MAL. Now near enough; your leavy screens throw down, And show like those you are:-You, worthy uncle, SIW. Fare you well. 6 I'gin to be a-weary of the fun, &c.] 7 Tum vero infelix fatis exterrita Dido Mortem orat, tædet cæli convexa tueri. THEOBALD. harness-] An old word for armour.. So, in The Cobler's Prophecy, 1594: "His harness is converted to foft filke." HENDERSON. So, in the continuation of Hardyng's Chronicle, 1543:"-well perceyving that the intendours of fuch a purpofe would rather have had their barneffe on their backs, than to have bound them up in barrelles." MALONE, Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night, MACD. Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. [Exeunt. Alarums continued. SCENE VII. The fame. Another part of the Plain. Enter MACBETH. MACB. They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the courfe."-What's he, That was not born of woman? Such a one Yo. Siw. No; though thou call'ft thyself a hotter name Than any is in hell. Масв. My name's Macbeth. Yo. Siw. The devil himself could not pronounce a title More hateful to mine ear. I must fight the courfe.] A phrafe taken from bear-baiting. So, in The Antipodes, by Brome, 1638: "Alfo you fhall fee two ten-dog courfes at the great bear." STEEVENS. MACB. No, nor more fearful. To. Siw. Thou lieft, abhorred tyrant; with my fword I'll prove the lie thou speak'ft. MACB. [They fight, and young Siward is flain. Thou waft born of woman. But fwords I fmile at, weapons laugh to fcorn, Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born." [Exit. Alarums. Enter MACDUFF. MACD. That way the noife is :-Tyrant, fhow thy face: If thou be'st flain, and with no ftroke of mine, • This short scene is injudicioufly omitted on the ftage. The poet defigned Macbeth fhould appear invincible, till he encountered the object destined for his destruction. STEEVENS. either thou, Macbeth, Or else my fword, &c.] I fufpect an intermediate line has been loft; perhaps of this import: either thou, Macbeth, Advance, and bravely meet an injur'd foe, Or elfe my fword, with an unbatter'd edge, Were any change in this line neceffary, inftead of either we might read hither. "Hither, thou, Macbeth," would elliptically mean "Come thou hither, Macbeth!" Lady Macbeth, apostrophifing her absent husband, has ufed nearly the fame phrase: Hie thee hither, "That I may pour my fpirits in thine ear." I cannot, however, perfuade myself that any line is wanting to complete the fenfe of the paffage. That abruptnefs which Mr. Malone regards as a blemish, (confidering the present state of Mac |