tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889728620917003012.post3806325625427397817..comments2024-01-15T23:27:59.471-08:00Comments on My Antarctic Adventure: Friday 16th August 2013Craig Hayhowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670454374543211146noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889728620917003012.post-31454404488550419972013-08-18T14:58:35.109-07:002013-08-18T14:58:35.109-07:00Hi Craig
I conjured up visions of cauldrons and ...Hi Craig <br /><br />I conjured up visions of cauldrons and bubbles so here is a poem for you.<br /><br /> William Shakespeare (1564-1616)<br /> from Macbeth<br /><br />A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.<br /><br /> Enter the three Witches.<br /><br /> 1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. <br /> 2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd. <br /> 3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time! <br /> 1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go; <br /> In the poison'd entrails throw.— <br /> Toad, that under cold stone, <br /> Days and nights has thirty-one; <br /> Swelter'd venom sleeping got, <br /> Boil thou first i' the charmed pot! <br /> ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; <br /> Fire burn, and caldron bubble. <br /> 2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake, <br /> In the caldron boil and bake; <br /> Eye of newt, and toe of frog, <br /> Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, <br /> Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, <br /> Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,— <br /> For a charm of powerful trouble, <br /> Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. <br /> ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; <br /> Fire burn, and caldron bubble. <br /> 3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf; <br /> Witches' mummy; maw and gulf <br /> Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark; <br /> Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark; <br /> Liver of blaspheming Jew; <br /> Gall of goat, and slips of yew <br /> Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse; <br /> Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips; <br /> Finger of birth-strangled babe <br /> Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,— <br /> Make the gruel thick and slab: <br /> Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, <br /> For the ingrediants of our caldron. <br /> ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; <br /> Fire burn, and caldron bubble. <br /> 2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood, <br /> Then the charm is firm and good.<br /><br /> <br /><br />brinded - having obscure dark streaks or flecks on gray <br />gulf - the throat <br />drab - prostitute <br />chaudron - entrails<br />The above appears at the beginning of Act IV, Scene 1 as found in:<br /><br />Shakespeare, William. The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated. Howard Staunton ed. New York: Gramercy Books, 1993.Arthur Blackwellnoreply@blogger.com