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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.

All. Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Third Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,

Witches' mummy, maw and gulf

Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,

Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,

Liver of blaspheming Jew,

Gall of goat, and slips of yew

Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,

Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,

Finger of birth-strangled babe

Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,

Make the gruel thick and slab:

Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,

For the ingredients of our cauldron.

All. Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Sec. Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood;

Then the charm is firm and good.

Hec. O! 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,

Enchanting all that you put in.

Music and a song, 'Black Spirits,' &c.

 16 fork: forked tongue

17 howlet's: owl's

23 mummy: medicine made from mummies

gulf: throat (?)

24 ravin'd: ravenous (?), glutted (?)

31 Ditch-deliver'd: born in a ditch

drab: low woman

32 slab: sticky

33 chaudron: entrails

