Song of the Witches

During the week, we practiced reading Song of the Witches. There were many words we didn't know so we looked them up to understand what strange things the witches were putting in their brew.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Fillet of 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 string,

Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble:

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon's blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.

Macbeth: IV. i. 10-19; 35-38

William Shakespeare