SCENE III.
Changes to the Heath.
Thunder. Enter the three Witches.
1 Witch.
Where hast thou been, sister?
2 Witch.
Killing swine.
3 Witch.
Sister, where thou?
1 Witch.
A sailor's wife had chesnuts in her lap,
And mouncht, and mouncht, and mouncht. Give me, quoth I.
5 note
Aroint thee, witch!—the rump-fed ronyon cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' th' Tyger:
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.
2 Witch.
I'll give thee a wind.
1 Witch.
Thou art kind.
3 Witch.
And I another.
1 Witch.
I myself have all the other.
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6 noteAnd the very points they blow;
All the quarters that they know,
I' th' ship-man's card.—
I will drain him dry as hay,
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid;
7 note
He shall live a man forbid;
Weary sev'n nights, 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.
2 Witch.
Shew me, shew me.
1 Witch.
Here I have a pilot's thumb,
Wreckt as homeward he did come.
[Drum within.
3 Witch.
A drum, a drum!
Macbeth doth come!
All.
8 note
The weyward sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
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Thus do go about, about,
Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
And thrice again to make up nine!
Peace!—the Charm's wound up.
-- 381 --
Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
