The Witches of Macbeth

When I hear these lines from Macbeth it always reminds me of the time my best friend (Valerey) and I went to the old theater along time ago. It was a live performance and I enjoyed it very much. It fits the Halloween Spirit for me and brings back good memories.

As a 'in between' to my part 4 Halloween Decorating Tuts I have posted the scene from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth Act 4 scene 1

First Witch 

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

Second Witch 

Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.

Third Witch 

Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.

First Witch 

Round about the cauldron 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 

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch 

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 owlet'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.

 

Third Witch 

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.

Second Witch 

Cool it with a baboon's blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.

Enter HECATE to the other three Witches

HECATE 

O well done! I commend your pains;

And every one shall share i' the gains;

And now about the cauldron sing,

Live elves and fairies in a ring,

Enchanting all that you put in.

Second Witch 

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes.

Open, locks,

  

 

YOUR NEVER TO OLD TO ENJOY HALLOWEEN