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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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In the poisoned entrails throw.<br />

Toad, that under cold stone<br />

Days and nights hast thirty-one<br />

Sweltered venom sleeping got,<br />

Boil thou first i’ the charméd pot.<br />

Double, double toil and trouble;<br />

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.<br />

‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4<br />

Eye <strong>of</strong> newt, and toe <strong>of</strong> frog,<br />

Wool <strong>of</strong> bat, and tongue <strong>of</strong> dog,<br />

Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,<br />

Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,<br />

For a charm <strong>of</strong> powerful trouble,<br />

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.<br />

‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14<br />

Liver <strong>of</strong> blaspheming Jew,<br />

Gall <strong>of</strong> goat, and slips <strong>of</strong> yew<br />

Slivered in the moon’s eclipse,<br />

Nose <strong>of</strong> Turk, and Tartar’s lips,<br />

Finger <strong>of</strong> birth-strangled babe<br />

Ditch-delivered by a drab,<br />

Make the gruel thick and slab.<br />

‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 26<br />

Second Witch: By the pricking <strong>of</strong> my thumbs,<br />

Something wicked this way comes.<br />

Open, locks,<br />

Whoever knocks.<br />

Macbeth: How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!<br />

What is’t you do?<br />

Witches: A deed without a name.<br />

‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44<br />

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn<br />

<strong>The</strong> power <strong>of</strong> man, for none <strong>of</strong> woman born<br />

Shall harm Macbeth.<br />

‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79<br />

But yet, I’ll make assurance double sure,<br />

And take a bond <strong>of</strong> fate.<br />

‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 83<br />

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until<br />

Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill

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