Double Double Toil and Trouble

Happy Halloween! 

Halloween means Shakespeare to me.

If I were to go back to high school forensics,

I would LOVE to have chosen this instead of

the boring ol' Emily Dickenson poem that I performed.

Nothing against Emily Dickenson but how

fun would it have been to do this,

playing the part of all 3 witches? 

Ooh, the evil I would have brewed!

(check out the pumpkin patterns at the end!)

 Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

       Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.

      Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!

       Round about the caldron go;

    In the poison'd entrails throw.—

    Toad, that under cold stone,

    Days and nights has thirty-one;

    Swelter'd venom sleeping got,

    Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!

      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 owlet'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.

       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 ingrediants of our caldron.

      Double, double toil and trouble;

    Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

       Cool it with a baboon's blood,

    Then the charm is firm and good.

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