ACT 1, SCENE 3, 1-36

Where hath thou been, sister?

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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A heath near Forres. Thunder.
Enter the three Witches.

First Witch  Where hath thou been, sister?

Second Witch  Killing swine

Third Witch  Sister, where thou?

First Witch  A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd: 'Give me,' quoth I
'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:
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,
All the quarters that they know
I' the shipman's card.
I will drain him dry as hay:
Sleep shall neither night nor day

Hang upon his pent-house lid;
He shall live a man forbid:
Weary se'nnights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:
Though his bark cannot be lost,
Yet it shall be tempest-tost.
Look what I have.

Second Witch         Show me, show me.

First Witch  Here I have a pilot's thumb,
Wreck'd as homeward he did come. Drum within.

Third Witch  A drum, a drum!
Macbeth doth come.

All  The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! the charm's wound up. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO.

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