FIRST WITCH

Thrice the branded cat hath mew’d.

SECOND WITCH

Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.

THIRD WITCH

Harpier cries:-‘tis time, ‘tis time.

FIRST WITCH

Round about the caludron go;

In the poison’d entrails throw.-

Toad, that under cold stone

Days and nights has thirty one

Swelter’d venom sleeping got,

Boil thou first i’the charmed pot.

ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble.

SECOND WITCH

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 powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fir, burn; and, cauldron, bubble.

THIRD WITCH

Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;

Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf

Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark;

Root of hemlock digg’d I’the dark;

Liver of blaspheming Jew;

Goal 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 chaudron,

For th’ingredients of our cauldron.

ALL

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble.

SECOND WITCH

Cool it with a baboon’s blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.

Enter HECATE

O, well done! I commend your pains;

And everyone shall I’the gains:

And now about the cauldron sing,

Like elves and fairies in a ring,

Enchanting all that you put in.

(MACBETH Act IV. Scene I)