Macbeth: No Fear Shakespeare (Spark Notes): 1

 

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Macbeth on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Each No Fear Shakespeare contains:

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Shakespeare's classic tale of witches, murder, and madness.

"Double, double toil and trouble; 

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

 

Fillet of a fenny snake, 

In the caldron boil and bake; 

Eye of newt and toe of frog, 

Wool of bat and tongue of dog, 

Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, 

Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, 

For a charm of powerful trouble, 

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

 

Double, double toil and trouble; 

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

 

Cool it with a baboon's blood, 

Then the charm is firm and good.

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Macbeth: IV.

i 10-19; 35-38