Macbeth

by: William Shakespeare

Act 4 Scene 1

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A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three WITCHES.	A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. The three WITCHES enter.
FIRST WITCH Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.	FIRST WITCH The tawny cat has meowed three times.
SECOND WITCH Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined.	SECOND WITCH Three times. And the hedgehog has whined once.
THIRD WITCH Harpier cries, “'Tis time, ’tis time.”	THIRD WITCH My spirit friend, Harpier, is yelling, “It’s time, it’s time!”
FIRST WITCH Round about the cauldron go, 5In the poisoned entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Sweltered venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' th' charmèd pot.	FIRST WITCH Dance around the cauldron and throw in the poisoned entrails. (holding up a toad) You’ll go in first—a toad that sat under a cold rock for a month, oozing poison from its pores.
ALL 10Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.	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, 15Wool 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.	SECOND WITCH (holding something up) We’ll boil you in the cauldron next—a slice of swamp snake. All the rest of you in too: a newt’s eye, a frog’s tongue, fur from a bat, a dog’s tongue, the forked tongue of an adder, the stinger of a burrowing worm, a lizard’s leg, an owl’s wing. (speaking to the ingredients) Make a charm to cause powerful trouble, and boil and bubble like a broth of hell.
ALL 20Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.	ALL Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Read the Summary of Act 4, scenes 1–3

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