And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd: 'Give me,' quoth I:
'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
But in a sieve I'll thither sail, 8
And, like a rat without a tail,
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Sec. Witch. I'll give thee a wind.
First Witch. Thou'rt kind. 12
Third Witch. And I another.
First Witch. I myself have all the other;
And the very ports they blow,
All the quarters that they know 16
I' the shipman's card.
I'll drain him dry as hay:
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid; 20
He shall live a man forbid.
Weary sev'nnights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
Though his bark cannot be lost, 24
Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
Look what I have.
Sec. Witch. Show me, show me.
First Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, 28
Wrack'd as homeward he did come.
Drum within.
Third Witch. A drum! a drum!
Macbeth doth come.
All. The weird sisters, hand in hand, 32
6 Aroint thee: begone
rump-fed ronyon; cf. n.
7 Aleppo: a city in Syria
Tiger: name of a ship
9, 10 Cf. n.
15 ports they blow: directions they blow (?); harbors they blow towards (?)
17 card: dial of the compass
20 pent-house lid: eyelid; cf. n.
21 forbid: accursed
23 peak: waste away
32 weird sisters; cf. n.
