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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Double Double Toil and Trouble

In the spirit of the Season,
a scene from  William Shakespeare's (1564-1616)"Macbeth, beginning of Act IV, Scene 1 as found in:
  • Shakespeare, William. The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated. Howard Staunton ed. New York: Gramercy Books, 1993.


  • _______________________IMAGINE_________________________________
                                   
    A dark Cave, In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.
                    Enter the  Witches.
            
       Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.     
       Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
       Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
       Round about the caldron 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!
           
       Double, double toil and trouble;
       Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

       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.
      
       Double, double toil and trouble;
       Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
      
       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
       Sliver'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 ingrediants of our caldron.
      
       Double, double toil and trouble;
       Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
      
       Cool it with a baboon's blood,
       Then the charm is firm and good

             HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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