Macbeth: Act 4, Scene 1 Thunder. Enter the three WITCHES. First Witch 1 Thrice the brinded cat hath mewd. Second Witch 2 Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Third Witch 3 Harpier cries Tis time, tis time. First Witch 4 Round about the cauldron go; 5 In the poisond entrails throw. 6 Toad, that under cold stone 7 Days and nights has thirty-one 8 Swelterd venom sleeping got, 9 Boil thou first i the charmed pot. ALL 10 Double, double toil and trouble; 11 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch 12 Fillet of a fenny snake, 13 In the cauldron boil and bake; 14 Eye of newt and toe of frog, 15 Wool of bat and tongue of dog, 16 Adders fork and blind-worms sting, 17 Lizards leg and howlets wing, 18 For a charm of powerful trouble, 19 Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL 20 Double, double toil and trouble; 21 Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Third Witch 22 Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, 23 Witches mummy, maw and gulf 24 Of the ravind salt-sea shark, 25 Root of hemlock diggd i the dark, 26 Liver of blaspheming Jew, 27 Gall of goat, and slips of yew 28 Sliverd in the moons eclipse, 29 Nose of Turk and Tartars lips, 30 Finger of birth-strangled babe 31 Ditch-deliverd by a drab, 32 Make the gruel thick and slab. 33 Add thereto a tigers chaudron, 34 For the ingredients of our cauldron. ALL 35 Double, double toil and trouble; 36 Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Second Witch 37 Cool it with a baboons blood, 38 Then the charm is firm and good. ** Enter HECAT and the other three WITCHES. HECATE 39 O well done! I commend your pains; 40 And every one shall share i the gains; 41 And now about the cauldron sing, 42 Live elves and fairies in a ring 43 Enchanting all that you put in. Music and a song: Black spirits, etc. [Exit HECATE.] Second Witch 44 By the pricking of my thumbs, 45 Something wicked this way comes. [Knocking.] 46 Open, locks, 47 Whoever knocks!
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