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<h1>MACBETH</h1>
<h2 class="no-break">by William Shakespeare</h2>
<h2><SPAN name="sceneIV_20.1" id="sceneIV_20.1"></SPAN> <b>ACT IV</b></h2>
<h3><b>SCENE I. A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling.</b></h3>
<p class="scenedesc"> Thunder. Enter the three <span class="charname">Witches</span>.</p>
<p>FIRST WITCH.<br/>
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.</p>
<p>SECOND WITCH.<br/>
Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whin’d.</p>
<p>THIRD WITCH.<br/>
Harpier cries:—’Tis time, ’tis time.</p>
<p>FIRST WITCH.<br/>
Round about the cauldron go;<br/>
In the poison’d entrails throw.—<br/>
Toad, that under cold stone<br/>
Days and nights has thirty-one<br/>
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,<br/>
Boil thou first i’ th’ charmed pot!</p>
<p>ALL.<br/>
Double, double, toil and trouble;<br/>
Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.</p>
<p>SECOND WITCH.<br/>
Fillet of a fenny snake,<br/>
In the cauldron boil and bake;<br/>
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,<br/>
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,<br/>
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,<br/>
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,<br/>
For a charm of powerful trouble,<br/>
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.</p>
<p>ALL.<br/>
Double, double, toil and trouble;<br/>
Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.</p>
<p>THIRD WITCH.<br/>
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,<br/>
Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf<br/>
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,<br/>
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ th’ dark,<br/>
Liver of blaspheming Jew,<br/>
Gall of goat, and slips of yew<br/>
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse,<br/>
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips,<br/>
Finger of birth-strangled babe<br/>
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,<br/>
Make the gruel thick and slab:<br/>
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,<br/>
For th’ ingredients of our cauldron.</p>
<p>ALL.<br/>
Double, double, toil and trouble;<br/>
Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.</p>
<p>SECOND WITCH.<br/>
Cool it with a baboon’s blood.<br/>
Then the charm is firm and good.</p>
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