Shakespeare In Hell

Toil and Trouble

Shakespeare In Hell


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.