Quote of the Week

The Three Witches from "Macbeth, " by Alexandre-Marie Colin, 1827

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

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

Harper cries: - 'tis time! 'tis time!

Round about the cauldron 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 cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron 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 cauldron bubble.

-William Shakespeare,  Macbeth