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Double meaning
"pour we in our country's purge"
Act 5,
Scene 2
Lines 26b-30a

An explanation of “each drop of us” in Act 5, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s Macbeth.

Caithness

                                     Well, march we on
To give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,
And with him, pour we in our country's purge,
Each drop of us.

This phrase has two possible readings:

  • To treat sick Scotland, Caithness and the others will pour themselves, each as drops of medicine.
  • In purging Scotland of Macbeth, they will give every drop of their blood (or fight until each of them drops dead).