Have Gun - Will Travel

Paladin: "Let each soldier hew him down a bough and bear't before him: and thereby Birnam wood will come to Dunsinane." Gino: What's that? Paladin: That, friend, is Shakespeare. Paladin is paraphrasing a bit, and combining two quotations. The lines are from MacBeth, Act 5. The first part is from Scene IV, spoken by Malcolm, and is as follows: "Let each soldier hew him down a bough and bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host and make discovery err in report of us." The line about Birnam wood comes a little further on in Scene V, where MacBeth comments about a prophecy: "...fear not, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, and now a wood comes toward Dunsinane."