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by Thomas Middleton, used in stagings after Shakespeare’s retirement)
    Song 1:   
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    Song 1: at end of 3.5:
    UNSEEN SPIRITS     Come away, come away,
Above
        Hecate, Hecate, O come away!
    HECATE     I come, I come, I come, I come,
        With all the speed I may,
        With all the speed I may.
        Where’s Stadlin?
    UNSEEN SPIRIT     Here.
    HECATE     Where’s Puckle?
    UNSEEN SPIRIT     Here.
    UNSEEN SPIRITS     And Hoppo too, and Hellway too,
        We lack but you, we lack but you.
        Come away, make up the count 12 .
    HECATE     I will but ’noint 13 , and then I mount.
        I will but ’noint, and then I mount.
    Malkin, a spirit like a cat, descends
    UNSEEN SPIRITS     Here comes one down to fetch his dues 15 ,
        A kiss, a cull 16 , a sip of blood,
        And why thou stay’st so long I muse 17 , I muse,
        Since the air’s so fresh and good.
    HECATE     O, art thou come? What news, what news?
    MALKIN     All goes well to our delight:
        Either come or else
        Refuse, refuse.
    HECATE     Now I am furnished 23 for the flight.
Going up

        Now I go, O now I fly,
        Malkin my sweet spirit and I.
        O what a dainty pleasure is this
        To ride in the air
        When the moon shines fair,
        And feast and sing and toy and kiss!
        Over woods, high rocks and mountains,
        Over seas, our crystal 31 fountains,
        Over steeples, towers, turrets,
        We fly by night ’mongst troops of spirits:

        No ring of bells to our ears sound 34 ,

        No howls of wolves, nor yelps of hounds,
        No, nor the noise of water’s breach 36 ,
        Nor cannon’s throat our height can reach.
     
    UNSEEN SPIRITS     No ring of bells to our ears sound,
        No howls of wolves, nor yelps of hounds,
        No, nor the noise of water’s breach,
        Nor cannon’s throat our height can reach.
    [
Exeunt
]
    Song 2:   
    Song 2: in 4.1, before Macbeth’s entrance:
    HECATE     Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey,
        Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.
    FOURTH WITCH     Titty, Tiffin, keep it stiff in 3 ,
        Firedrake, Puckey, make it lucky,
        Liard, Robin, you must bob in.
    ALL     Round, around, around, about, about,
        All ill come running in, all good keep out.
    FOURTH WITCH     Here’s the blood of a bat.
    HECATE     Put in that, O put in that!
    FIFTH WITCH     Here’s leopard’s bane 10 .
    HECATE     Put in a grain.
    FOURTH WITCH     The juice of toad, the oil 12 of adder.
    FIFTH WITCH     Those will make the charm grow madder 13 .
    HECATE     Put in, there’s all, and rid 14 the stench.
    SIXTH WITCH     Nay, here’s three ounces of a red-haired wench 15 .
    ALL     Round, around, around, about, about,
        All ill come running in, all good keep out.
    [
Exit Hecate and the other three Witches
]

TEXTUAL NOTES
    F = First Folio text of 1623, the only authority for the play
    F2 = a correction introduced in the Second Folio text of 1632
    F3 = a correction introduced in the Third Folio text of 1663–64
    Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
    SD = stage direction
    SH = speech heading (i.e. speaker’s name)
    List of parts = Ed
    1.1.1 SH FIRST WITCH = Ed. F = 1.
(throughout) 3 SH SECOND WITCH
= Ed. F = 2.
(throughout) 5 SH THIRD WITCH
= Ed. F = 3.
(throughout) 10 SH SECOND WITCH
= Ed.
Line assigned to All in
F 11 SH THIRD WITCH = Ed.
Line assigned to All in
F 12 SH ALL = Ed.
At line 10 in
F
    1.2.1 SH DUNCAN = Ed. F =
King. (throughout) 11 Macdonald
= Ed. F =
Macdonwald 15 gallowglasses
= Ed. F = Gallowgrosses 16