If Thou Speak'St False

If thou speak’st false , Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much. I pull in resolution, and begin, If thou speak’st false, Upon the next tree shall thou hang alive Till famine cling thee. If thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much. I pull in resolution and begin To doubt th’ equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth. “Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane”; and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane.

If thou speak’st false , Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much. I pull in resolution, and begin, If thou speak’st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much. — I pull in resolution; and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth. Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane; and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. — Arm, arm, and out!, If thou speak’st false , If thou speak’st false , false (adv.)wrongly, erroneously, in error: Mac V.v.38.2: Vpon the next Tree shall thou hang aliue: Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive : Mac V.v.39: Till Famine cling thee: If thy speech be sooth, Till famine cling thee. If thy speech be sooth, sooth (adj.)true: Mac V.v.40: cling (v.)wither …

“ If thou speak’st false ,upon the next tree shall thou hang alive till famine cling thee.” MACBETHPERSONIFICATIONFamine (Scarcity of food) ability to cling to something “That lies like the truth: ‘Fear not, Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane!’ And now wood comes to Dunsinane.” MACBETHANECDOTEMemory of Macbeth