How does the witches trick Macbeth?

Thunder. Enter the three Witches.

FIRST WITCH 
 Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.
SECOND WITCH 
 Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined.
THIRD WITCH 
 Harpier cries “’Tis time, ’tis time!”
FIRST WITCH 
 Round about the cauldron go;
5 In the poisoned entrails throw.
 Toad, that under cold stone
 Days and nights has thirty-one
 Sweltered venom sleeping got,
 Boil thou first i’ th’ charmèd pot.
⌜The Witches circle the cauldron.⌝
ALL 
10 Double, double toil and trouble;
 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
SECOND WITCH 
 Fillet of a fenny snake
 In the cauldron boil and bake.
 Eye of newt and toe of frog,
15 Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
 Adder’s fork and blindworm’s sting,

 Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
 For a charm of powerful trouble,
 Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL 
20 Double, double toil and trouble;
 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
THIRD WITCH 
 Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
 Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
 Of the ravined salt-sea shark,
25 Root of hemlock digged i’ th’ dark,
 Liver of blaspheming Jew,
 Gall of goat and slips of yew
 Slivered in the moon’s eclipse,
 Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
30 Finger of birth-strangled babe
 Ditch-delivered by a drab,
 Make the gruel thick and slab.
 Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron
 For th’ ingredience of our cauldron.
ALL 
35 Double, double toil and trouble;
 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
SECOND WITCH 
 Cool it with a baboon’s blood.
 Then the charm is firm and good.

Enter Hecate ⌜to⌝ the other three Witches.

HECATE 
 O, well done! I commend your pains,
40 And everyone shall share i’ th’ 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,” etc. ⌜Hecate exits.⌝

SECOND WITCH 
 By the pricking of my thumbs,
45 Something wicked this way comes.
 Open, locks,
 Whoever knocks.

Enter Macbeth.

MACBETH 
 How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags?
 What is ’t you do?
ALL 50 A deed without a name.
MACBETH 
 I conjure you by that which you profess
 (Howe’er you come to know it), answer me.
 Though you untie the winds and let them fight
 Against the churches, though the yeasty waves
55 Confound and swallow navigation up,
 Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown
 down,
 Though castles topple on their warders’ heads,
 Though palaces and pyramids do slope
60 Their heads to their foundations, though the
 treasure
 Of nature’s ⌜germens⌝ tumble ⌜all together⌝
 Even till destruction sicken, answer me
 To what I ask you.
FIRST WITCH 65 Speak.
SECOND WITCH  Demand.
THIRD WITCH  We’ll answer.
FIRST WITCH 
 Say if th’ hadst rather hear it from our mouths
 Or from our masters’.
MACBETH 70 Call ’em. Let me see ’em.
FIRST WITCH 
 Pour in sow’s blood that hath eaten
 Her nine farrow; grease that’s sweaten

 From the murderers’ gibbet throw
 Into the flame.
ALL 75 Come high or low;
 Thyself and office deftly show.

Thunder. First Apparition, an Armed Head.

MACBETH 
 Tell me, thou unknown power—
FIRST WITCH  He knows thy
 thought.
80 Hear his speech but say thou naught.
FIRST APPARITION 
 Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!
 Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough.
He descends.
MACBETH 
 Whate’er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks.
 Thou hast harped my fear aright. But one word
85 more—
FIRST WITCH 
 He will not be commanded. Here’s another
 More potent than the first.

Thunder. Second Apparition, a Bloody Child.

SECOND APPARITION Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!—
MACBETH Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.
SECOND APPARITION 
90 Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn
 The power of man, for none of woman born
 Shall harm Macbeth.⌜He⌝ descends.
MACBETH 
 Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee?
 But yet I’ll make assurance double sure
95 And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live,
 That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
 And sleep in spite of thunder.

Thunder. Third Apparition, a Child Crowned, with a tree
in his hand.

 What is this
 That rises like the issue of a king
100 And wears upon his baby brow the round
 And top of sovereignty?
ALL Listen but speak not to ’t.
THIRD APPARITION 
 Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
 Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
105 Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
 Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
 Shall come against him.⌜He⌝ descends.
MACBETH  That will never be.
 Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
110 Unfix his earthbound root? Sweet bodements, good!
 Rebellious dead, rise never till the Wood
 Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth
 Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath
 To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart
115 Throbs to know one thing. Tell me, if your art
 Can tell so much: shall Banquo’s issue ever
 Reign in this kingdom?
ALL  Seek to know no more.
MACBETH 
 I will be satisfied. Deny me this,
120 And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know!
⌜Cauldron sinks.⌝ Hautboys.
 Why sinks that cauldron? And what noise is this?
FIRST WITCH Show.
SECOND WITCH Show.
THIRD WITCH Show.
ALL 
125 Show his eyes and grieve his heart.
 Come like shadows; so depart.

A show of eight kings, ⌜the eighth king⌝ with a glass in
his hand, and Banquo last.

MACBETH 
 Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!
 Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. And thy hair,
 Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.
130 A third is like the former.—Filthy hags,
 Why do you show me this?—A fourth? Start, eyes!
 What, will the line stretch out to th’ crack of doom?
 Another yet? A seventh? I’ll see no more.
 And yet the eighth appears who bears a glass
135 Which shows me many more, and some I see
 That twofold balls and treble scepters carry.
 Horrible sight! Now I see ’tis true,
 For the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me
 And points at them for his.
⌜The Apparitions disappear.⌝
140 What, is this so?
FIRST WITCH 
 Ay, sir, all this is so. But why
 Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
 Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites
 And show the best of our delights.
145 I’ll charm the air to give a sound
 While you perform your antic round,
 That this great king may kindly say
 Our duties did his welcome pay.
Music. The Witches dance and vanish.
MACBETH 
 Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour
150 Stand aye accursèd in the calendar!—
 Come in, without there.

Enter Lennox.

LENNOX  What’s your Grace’s will?

MACBETH 
 Saw you the Weïrd Sisters?
LENNOX  No, my lord.
MACBETH 
155 Came they not by you?
LENNOX  No, indeed, my lord.
MACBETH 
 Infected be the air whereon they ride,
 And damned all those that trust them! I did hear
 The galloping of horse. Who was ’t came by?
LENNOX 
160 ’Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word
 Macduff is fled to England.
MACBETH  Fled to England?
LENNOX Ay, my good lord.
MACBETH, ⌜aside⌝ 
 Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits.
165 The flighty purpose never is o’ertook
 Unless the deed go with it. From this moment
 The very firstlings of my heart shall be
 The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
 To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and
170 done:
 The castle of Macduff I will surprise,
 Seize upon Fife, give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword
 His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
 That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;
175 This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool.
 But no more sights!—Where are these gentlemen?
 Come bring me where they are.
They exit.

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