Song of the Witches

Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”

By William Shakespeare 

From: Macbeth

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the cauldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt and toe of frog,

Wool of bat and toe of dog,

Adder’s fork and blind-worms sting;

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 cauldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon’s blood

Then the charm is firm and good.

From The Random House Book of Poetry for Children 1983