Second Witch. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin'd.
Third Witch. Harpier cries, 'Tis time, 'tis time.
First Witch.
[Marching around caldron and throwing in things, shaking her head wisely and solemnly; bending over stick she thumps it on floor, saying:]
'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.
[After First Witch has gone around often enough to complete her rhyme, others follow and, thumping sticks on floor and bending their bodies back and forward as they go, say:]
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron, bubble.
Second Witch.
[Marches around alone, others stepping out and one side. Second Witch does exactly what First Witch did when she went alone. She continues to go round while she says:]
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.
[When Second Witch finishes, others fall in behind her and march around shaking heads, bending back and forward, and thumping sticks, saying:]
