Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”

 

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, French school. The Witches in Macbeth, c.1841-1842. Oil on canvas (29.4 x 40.4 cm). London, Wallace collection. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”

By William Shakespeare

(from Macbeth)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 howlet’s wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.