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Macbeth, I. iii

And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd: 'Give me,' quoth I:

'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.

Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:

But in a sieve I'll thither sail,

And, like a rat without a tail,

I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.

Sec. Witch. I'll give thee a wind.

First Witch. Thou'rt kind.

Third Witch. And I another.

First Witch. I myself have all the other;

And the very ports they blow,

All the quarters that they know

I' the shipman's card.

I'll drain him dry as hay:

Sleep shall neither night nor day

Hang upon his pent-house lid;

He shall live a man forbid.

Weary sev'nnights nine times nine

Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:

Though his bark cannot be lost,

Yet it shall be tempest-tost.

Look what I have.

Sec. Witch. Show me, show me.

First Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb,

Wrack'd as homeward he did come.

Drum within.

Third Witch. A drum! a drum!

Macbeth doth come.

All. The weird sisters, hand in hand,

 6 Aroint thee: begone

rump-fed ronyon; cf. n.

7 Aleppo: a city in Syria

Tiger: name of a ship

9, 10 Cf. n.

15 ports they blow: directions they blow (?); harbors they blow towards (?)

17 card: dial of the compass

20 pent-house lid: eyelid; cf. n.

21 forbid: accursed

23 peak: waste away

32 weird sisters; cf. n.

