Act I Scene I

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

FIRST WITCH When shall we three meet again?

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

SECOND WITCH When the hurly-burly’s done.

When the battle’s lost and won.

THIRD WITCH That will be ere the set of sun.

FIRST WITCH Where the place?

SECOND WITCH Upon the heath.

THIRD WITCH There to meet with MacBeth.

FIRST WITCH I come, Grey Malkin.

SECOND WITCH Paddock calls.

THIRD WITCH Annon.

ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (editors). William Shakespeare Complete Works. London: RSC, MacMillan, 2008, p. 1862.

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