The Children’s Garland from the Best Poets

CV The Witches’ Meeting

1st Witch.	When shall we three meet again
	In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
2d Witch.	When the hurly-burley’s done,
	When the battle’s lost or won:
3d Witch.	That will be ere set of sun.
1st Witch.	Where the place?
2d Witch.	Upon the heath;
3d Witch.	There to meet with Macbeth.
1st Witch.	I come Grimalkin!
All.	Paddock calls:—anon—
	Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
	Hover through the fog and filthy air.

THE CHARM

1st Witch.	Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.
2d Witch.	Thrice: and once the hedgehog whined.
3d Witch.	Harpier cries:—’Tis time, ’tis time:
1st Witch.	Round about the caldron go:
	In the poison’d entrails throw.
	Toad, that under the cold stone,
	Days and nights hast thirty-one
	Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
	Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot!
All.	Double, double toil and trouble;
	Fire burn, and, caldron, bubble.
2d Witch.	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.	Double, double toil and trouble;
	Fire burn, and, caldron, bubble.
3d Witch.	Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf;
	Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf
	Of the ravin’d salt sea shark;
	Root of hemlock, digged i’ the dark;
	Liver of blaspheming Jew;
	Gall of goat, and slips of yew
	Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse;
	Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips;
	Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
	For the ingredients of our caldron.
All.	Double, double toil and trouble;
	Fire burn, and, caldron, bubble.
2d Witch.	Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
	Then the charm is firm and good.

W. Shakespeare