Act 1 Scene 1

FIRST WITCH
When should the three of us meet again? Will it be in thunder, lightning, or rain?
SECOND WITCH
We’ll meet when the noise of the battle is over, when one side has won and the other side has lost.
THIRD WITCH
That will happen before sunset.
FIRST WITCH
Where should we meet?
SECOND WITCH
Let’s do it in the open field.
THIRD WITCH
We’ll meet Macbeth there.
FIRST WITCH
I’m coming, Graymalkin!
SECOND WITCH
My toad, Paddock, calls me.
THIRD WITCH
I’ll be right here!
ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Let’s fly away through the fog and filthy air.

FIRST WITCh

Where have you been ?

SECOND WITCH

Killing insects

THIRD W

And you mate

First W

A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap and munched away at them. “Give me one,” I said. “Get away from me, witch!” the fat woman cried. Her husband has sailed off to Aleppo as master of a ship called the Tiger. I’ll sail there in a kitchen strainer, turn myself into a tailless rat, and do things to him

SECOND W

I’ll give you some wind to sail there

FIRST W

How nice of you!

THIRD W 

And I will give you some more.
FIRST W

I already have control of all the other winds, along with the ports from which they blow and every direction on the sailor’s compass in which they can go. I’ll drain the life out of him. He won’t catch a wink of sleep, either at night or during the day. He will live as a cursed man. For eighty-one weeks he will waste away in agony.