Round about the couldron go:
In the poisones entrails throw.
Toad,that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Sweated venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first in the charmed pot.
Double,double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
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 blindworm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing.
For charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double,double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and couldron bubble.
Scale of dragon,tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd in the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat; andslips 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 the drab,-
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For ingrediants of our cauldron.
Double,double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
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Witches Chant
I loved it!!
William Shakespeare has always been my favorite playwright, but I didn't know he wrote poetry. -
I love Macbeth...we've read it in school also Romeo & Juliet, and Julius Caesar...I must say I admire your talent all the way
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we are learning about macbeth in our school and this will help. -
Poetry
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i did this poem for an ellocution exam and i got 100% from it. its such a fun poem to do with your voice , thats what makes shakespeare a genius -
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we learned this poem in school today.we had to actit out too!i really like it. -
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william was a good poetry.his classic words are uneasy 4 me 2 understand.but..the poem is still very2 interesting.me myself likes 'macbeth' soo much -
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in this poem there is not the first bit: thrice the brind'd cat have mew'd .... etc -
Yeah we are llearing it for school
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we are learning it for school and its realy cool and this site was very usefull for my reserch so thx dude who made it! -
Bonjour!
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This is one of my favorites by Shakespeare! I've read it since I was little! -
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Opinions differ on that one.
Some say it is a snake from the Fens, a district of Eastern Britain. Some say it is a part of the Arum flower. Whatever the true meaning it probably indicates something hard to find and therefore supposedly more potent.
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i love this poem. yea its kinda steroetypical of witches, but was there really a stereotype for witches back then? Witches truly did things like this back then, just not for malevolent purposes.
i love shakespeare, he truly is a god of poetry. -
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This poem is awsome for it to be about witches and withcraft i just love the imagery -
loved it!
This was incredible!!! I have never read this before...thanks for sharing. It was a pure cackling delight.
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i can't really remember the story nor do i remember studying it or reading it but i do know that i will study it in my second or third year at the university
anyways i liked the poem, and enjoyed reading it....
i might know what it has to do with the story when i read it...
(can't read it now... got loads to read lol and everytime i go to the book store i buy new stuff that i have to wait for the mid year holidays to read lol) -
im doing macbeth in school for my gcse i like the way they express all the bad things and hilutionations. its great
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This is why shakespear is a jeanious
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I loves this since I read Macbeth when I was about 9. It always been one my all time favorites.
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i love this poem too! but i pretty much love anything to do with the supernatural.
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this one of may favorites by william Shakesphere ,
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Lovely and scarey too.Really is "Witches Chant"
I love William Shakespear. -
I love this poem
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This is one of my favorites writes by William Shakespeare... I remember in High School we did a Play for Halloween and I was a Witch in the Play and we used this in our play... Ohh reading this again has brought me back...
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This is amazing! I love this one...I can't forget this line during a play in our school. A good one for Harry Potter fanatics hehe! I think this one is used in Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Yes, the line, 'Something wicked this way comes' is from Macbeth and is used the the third Harry Potter movie... I believe that that line is before this poem though... still a wonderful poem created by a wonderful playwright... Of course he's also one of the best when it comes to insults!
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well, actually. It was wrote by William Shakespeare, and he's the one that began it. I read my history. Look into it.
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Well, I am doing a play called William's Window. I can post all three parts on here starting with "Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed..." and ending with "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes-Open locks, whoever knocks!" Only if people want it though. -
Hehe... I've never read Mackbeth, but this surely makes me want to do so. Although plays are meant to be seen, ooo...so many ideas. I think I'm going to play around here more often, never been much of a fan of Shakespeare, but, I just might start.
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loved it
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Missing lines added.
Should be complete now.
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this is very beautiful a passage i agree that the lines omitted perhaps were not politicly correct but they should still be here thoese who don't read much shakespeare are missing the stupendous imagination that shakespeare had!
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Even my cousin from Lebanon, who speaks English only as a fourth language, quotes it to me all the time. One complaint: where are all the lines? There are quite a few lines missing here....is it possible that the lines excluded are "not politically correct"? Ahem....
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I LOVE THIS so much so cool all my friends will be jealous! WOW SO COOL! TOO COOL TO BE TRUE!!! SHAKESPEARE IS FIT -
So this is where the "Double, double toil and trouble" saying comes from, i feel rather silly now because i didn't know who'd said it first, i saw it in a movie and thought they'd made it up! which just goes to show you i'm dusty on my macbeth!
Woderful Piece of Writing.
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