The Witches stand over a Cauldron chanting: Act four, scene one:  

First Witch: 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’ th’ charmed pot.

All: 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,

Wool of bat, and tongue of dog:

Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,

Lizard’s leg, howlet’s wing:

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth, boil and bubble.

All: Double, double, toil and trouble,

                    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

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