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witch1: Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd
witch2: Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whin'd
witch3: Harpier cries, "'Tis time, 'tis time."
witch1: Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw;
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelt'red venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' th' charmed pot.
ALL: Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
witch2: Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of pow'rful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL: Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
witch3: Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' th' dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Add thereto a tiger's chawdron,
For th' ingredience of our cau'dron.
ALL: Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Witch2: Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
From: Macbeth. Shakespeare, circa 1607. From The Riverside Shakespeare V I, 1974.
witch2: Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whin'd
witch3: Harpier cries, "'Tis time, 'tis time."
witch1: Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw;
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelt'red venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' th' charmed pot.
ALL: Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
witch2: Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of pow'rful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL: Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
witch3: Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' th' dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Add thereto a tiger's chawdron,
For th' ingredience of our cau'dron.
ALL: Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Witch2: Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
From: Macbeth. Shakespeare, circa 1607. From The Riverside Shakespeare V I, 1974.
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