The famous scene from Shakespeare’s Macbeth where the witches stir up a potion (Act 4, Scene 1): ‘Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble’. My version is not the original text of Shakespeare’s play; it is a slight adaptation of Roman Polanski’s film version (1971).
The witches of Macbeth are supposed to evoke a strong sense of disgust in us. Since the witches are ‘low characters’ in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, I have chosen not to speak in clear ‘Shakespearean English’ to deliver these lines.
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Macbeth / Roman Polanski Witches Script:
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes
Hahahaha!
A deed without a name
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights had thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charm’ed pot.
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,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
Severed in the moon’s eclipse
Fillet of a fenny snake,
Into the cauldron boil and bake;
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.