Macbeth - Page 9

Killing swine.

THIRD WITCH

Sister, where thou?

FIRST WITCH

A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap

And munched and munched and munched. "Give

me," quoth I.

"Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed runnion cries.6

Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' th' Tiger:7

But in a sieve I'll thither sail

And, like a rat without a tail,

I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.

SECOND WITCH

I'll give thee a wind.

FIRST WITCH

Thou'rt kind.

THIRD WITCH

And I another.

FIRST WITCH

I myself have all the other,

And the very ports they blow,15

All the quarters that they know

I' th' shipman's card.17

I'll drain him dry as hay.

Sleep shall neither night nor day

Hang upon his penthouse lid.20

He shall live a man forbid.21

Weary sev'nights, nine times nine,

23 Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine.

Though his bark cannot be lost,

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