Macbeth Author:Henry Irving Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT IV. Scene i.—A Cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. The three Witches. ist Witch. IHRICE the brinded cat hath mew'd. 2nd W... more ». Thrice: and once the hedge-pig whin'd. yd W. Harpy cries.—'Tis time, 'tis time. u/ W. Round about the cauldron go ; In the poison'd entrails throw.— Toad, that under the 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. 2nd W. 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; Fire burn ; and cauldron bubble. yd W. 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 ; Gall of goat; and slips of yew Silver'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 the ingredients of our cauldron. All. Double, double toil and trouble ; Fire burn; and cauldron bubble. 2nd W. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. Enter Hecate. Hec. O, well done ! I commend your pains ; And every one shall share i' the gains. And now about the cauldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. [Music and song. Black spirits and white, Red spirits and grey, Mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may. [hecate disappears. znd W. By the pricking of ...« less