Song of The Witches (From Macbeth)

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    "Round about the cauldron go: In the poisoned entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Sweated 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.",
    "Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew; Gall of goat; and slips of yew Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse; Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips; Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver’d by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron.",
    "Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.",
    "Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good."
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