Double Double Toil and Trouble

William Shakespeare

from Macbeth

A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.

Enter the three Witches. _

1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.

3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!

1 WITCH. Round about the caldron 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 caldron bubble. _

2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron 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 owlet's wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. _

ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. _

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