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Double, Double Toil and Trouble - Jaakko Mäntyjärvi


Programme Notes:


Below is the literal translation in Italics, from pages 130-132 of"No Fear Shakespeare" Sparknotes.

A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three WITCHES.

FIRST WITCH
Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.
The tawny cat has meowed three times.

SECOND WITCH
Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined.
Three times. And the hedgehog has whined once.

THIRD WITCH
Harpier cries, “'Tis time, 'tis time.”
My spirit friend, Harpier, is yelling, “It's time, it's time!”

FIRST WITCH
Round about the cauldron go,
Dance around the cauldron and
5 In the poisoned entrails throw.
throw in the poisoned entrails.
Toad, that under cold stone
a toad that sat under a cold rock
Days and nights has thirty-one
for a month
Sweltered venom sleeping got,
oozing poison from its pores.
Boil thou first i' th' charmèd pot.

ALL
10 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,
All the rest of you in too: a newt's eye, a frog's tongue
15 Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
fur from a bat, a dog's tongue,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
the forked tongue of an adder, the stinger of a burrowing worm,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
a lizard's leg, an owl's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
(speaking to the ingredients) Make a charm to cause powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
and boil and bubble like a broth of hell.

ALL
20 Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

THIRD WITCH
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Here come some more ingredients: the scale of a dragon, a wolf's tooth,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
a witch's mummified flesh, the gullet and stomach
Of the ravined salt-sea shark,
of a ravenous shark,
25 Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark,
a root of hemlock that was dug up in the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
a Jew's liver,
Gall of goat and slips of yew
a goat's bile, some twigs of yew
Slivered in the moon's eclipse,
that were broken off during a lunar eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
a Turk's nose, a Tartar's lips,
30 Finger of birth-strangled babe
the finger of a baby that was strangled
Ditch-delivered by a drab,
as a prostitute gave birth to it in a ditch.
Make the gruel thick and slab.
(to the ingredients) Make this potion thick and gluey.
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
(to the other WITCHES) Now let's add a tiger's entrails to the mix.
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

ALL
35 Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

SECOND WITCH
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
We'll cool the mixture with baboon blood.
Then the charm is firm and good.
After that the charm is finished.

...

SECOND WITCH
By the pricking of my thumbs,
by the tingling in my thumbs
45 Something wicked this way comes.
I can tell that something wicked is coming
Open, locks,
Doors, open up for
Whoever knocks.
whoever is knocking!