The Witches from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Published: Oct. 31, 2007, 7:56 a.m.

b"A halloween special from Classic Poetry Aloud....\\n\\nMACBETH: ACT 1, SCENE 1\\n\\nSCENE I. A desert place.\\n\\nThunder and lightning. Enter three Witches \\n\\nFirst Witch\\nWhen shall we three meet again\\nIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?\\n\\nSecond Witch\\nWhen the hurlyburly's done,\\nWhen the battle's lost and won.\\n\\nThird Witch\\nThat will be ere the set of sun.\\n\\nFirst Witch\\nWhere the place?\\n\\nSecond Witch\\nUpon the heath.\\n\\nThird Witch\\nThere to meet with Macbeth.\\n\\nFirst \\nI come, Graymalkin!\\n\\nSecond \\nPaddock calls.\\n\\nThird \\nAnon.\\n\\nALL\\nFair is foul, and foul is fair:\\nHover through the fog and filthy air.\\n\\nACT 3, SCENE 5\\n\\nSCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.\\n\\nThunder. Enter the three Witches \\n\\nFirst \\nThrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.\\n\\nSecond \\nThrice and once the hedge-pig whined.\\n\\nThird \\nHarpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.\\n\\nFirst \\nRound about the cauldron go;\\nIn the poison'd entrails throw.\\nToad, that under cold stone\\nDays and nights has thirty-one\\nSwelter'd venom sleeping got,\\nBoil thou first i' the charmed pot.\\n\\nALL\\nDouble, double toil and trouble;\\nFire burn, and cauldron bubble.\\n\\nSecond \\nFillet of a fenny snake,\\nIn the cauldron boil and bake;\\nEye of newt and toe of frog,\\nWool of bat and tongue of dog,\\nAdder's fork and blind-worm's sting,\\nLizard's leg and owlet's wing,\\nFor a charm of powerful trouble,\\nLike a hell-broth boil and bubble.\\n\\nALL\\nDouble, double toil and trouble;\\nFire burn and cauldron bubble.\\n\\nThird \\nScale of dragon, tooth of wolf,\\nWitches' mummy, maw and gulf\\nOf the ravin'd salt-sea shark,\\nRoot of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,\\nLiver of blaspheming Jew,\\nGall of goat, and slips of yew\\nSilver'd in the moon's eclipse,\\nNose of Turk and Tartar's lips,\\nFinger of birth-strangled babe\\nDitch-deliver'd by a drab,\\nMake the gruel thick and slab:\\nAdd thereto a tiger's chaudron,\\nFor the ingredients of our cauldron.\\n\\nALL\\nDouble, double toil and trouble;\\nFire burn and cauldron bubble.\\n\\nSecond \\nCool it with a baboon's blood,\\nThen the charm is firm and good."