1 Witch. 2 Witch. From Macbeth, THE WITCHES' CAULDRON. 'HRICE the brinded cat hath mewed. THE Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Days and nights has thirty-one, 2 Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, For a charm of powerful trouble; 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw, and gulf Of the ravined salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digged i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, 2 Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, From Cymbeline. HARK! HARK! THE LARK AT HEAVEN'S GATE SINGS. [ARK! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, HARI And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; FEAR NO MORE THE HEAT OF THE SUN. EAR no more the heat o' the sun FEAR Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Fear no more the frown o' the great, Fear no more the lightning-flash, Thou hast finished joy and moan: No exorciser harm thee! From Antony and Cleopatra. COME, THOU MONARCH OF THE VINE. "OME, thou monarch of the vine, COM Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! From A Winter's Tale. WHEN DAFFODILS BEGIN TO PEER. HEN daffodils begin to peer, WHE With heigh! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing ! Doth set my pugging1 tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that tirra-lirra chants, With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay: Are summer songs for me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. 1 Thievish. A MERRY HEART GOES ALL THE DAY. OG on, jog on, the footpath way, JOG And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. L COME BUY, COME BUY. AWN as white as driven snow; Pins and poking-sticks' of steel, What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy. 1 Sticks of steel for setting the plaits of a ruff. |