All. Double, double toil and trouble; 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf; Make the gruel thick and slab : All. Double, double toil and trouble; 2 Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. Enter HECATE, and other three WITCHES. Hec. Oh, well done! I commend your pains; And every one shall share i'the gains. "And now about the cauldron sing, "Like elves and fairies in a ring, "Inchanting all that you put in.' MUSIC and a SONG*.. "Black spirits and white, 2 Witch. 2 Witch. By the pricking of my thumbs", Something wicked this way comes Open, locks, whoever knocks. 50 Mac. How now, you secret, black, and midnight Mac. I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it) answer me: Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches; though the *yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple* on their warder's heads; 60 Though palaces, and pyramids, do slope Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure *Of nature's germins tumble all together, Even 'till destruction sicken, answer me To what I ask you. 1 Witch. Speak. 2 Witch. Demand. 3 Witch. We'll answer. 1 Witch. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters'? 70 Mac. Call them, let me see them. 1 Witch. Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten Her nine farrow; grease, that's sweaten Thyself, and office, deftly show"." 1ft Apparition, an armed Head. Mac. Tell me, thou unknown pow'r,1 Witch. He knows thy thought; Hear his speech, but say thou nought*. [Thunder. 85 App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife*.-Dismiss me :-Enough. [Descends. Mac. What-e'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; Thou hast harp'd my fear aright* :-But one word more 1 Witch. He will not be commanded: here's another, More potent than the first. ed Apparition, a bloody Child. App. Macbeth Macbeth! Macbeth !— [Thunder. App. Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn The power of man; for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth*. 90 [Descends. Mac. Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live ; [Thunder. 3d Apparition, a Child crowned, with a Tree in his Hand. That rises like the issue of a king; And wears upon his baby brow "the round And top of sovereignty? All. Listen, but speak not to't. 100 App. Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are : Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Mac. That will never be : 'Who can impress the forest; bid the tree [Descends. Unfix his earth-bound root? sweet bodements! "good! "*Rebellious head, rise never, till the wood "Of Birnam rise, and our high-plac'd Macbeth 110 "Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath "To time, and mortal custom."-Yet my heart Throbs to know one thing; tell me, (if your art Can tell so much) shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom? All. Seek to know no more. Mac. I will be satisfy'd: deny me this, And an eternal curse fall on you! let me know :→→→ Why sinks that cauldron ? and what noise is this? [Hautboys. 1 Witch. 1 Witch. Shew 1 2 Witch. Shew! 3 Witch. Shew! 120 All. Shew his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart. [* A Shew of eight Kings, and BANQUO; the last with a Glass in his Hand.] Mac. Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo; down! *Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls :-*And thy air, Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first: A third is like the former :-Filthy hags!! Why do you shew me this ?-A fourth ?-Start, eyes! "What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom* ?-" Another yet?-A seventh ?—I'll see no more ;----- *That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry;" I'll charm the air to give a sound, Our duties did his welcome pay. 130 140 [Music. [The Witches dance and vanish. Mae. |