Witches’ Chant [Macbeth]

1st Witch:
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.


2nd Witch:
Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d.


3rd Witch
Harpier cries:—’tis time! ’tis time!


1st Witch:
Round about the cauldron go:
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Sweated venom sleeping got,

Boil thou first in the charmed pot.


All:

Double,double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


2nd 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 blindworm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing.
For charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.


All:
Double,double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and couldron bubble.


3rd Witch:
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg’d in the 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 chaudron,
For ingredients of our cauldron.


All:
Double,double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


2nd Witch:
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.