When shall we three meet again ? In thunder , lightning , or in rain ? Where the place ? I come , Graymalkin ! Where hast thou been , sister ? A sailor 's wife had chestnuts in her lap , And mounch 'd , and mounch 'd , and mounch 'd :— “ Give me , ” quoth I : “ Aroint thee , witch ! ” the rump-fed ronyon cries . Her husband 's to Aleppo gone , master o ’ the Tiger : But in a sieve I 'll thither sail , And , like a rat without a tail , I 'll do , I 'll do , and I 'll do . Thou art kind . I myself have all the other : And the very ports they blow , All the quarters that they know I ’ the shipman 's card . I will drain him dry as hay : Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid ; He shall live a man forbid : Weary seven-nights nine times nine Shall he dwindle , peak , and pine : Though his bark cannot be lost , Yet it shall be tempest-tost .— Look what I have . Here I have a pilot 's thumb , Wreck 'd as homeward he did come . All hail , Macbeth ! hail to thee , Thane of Glamis ! Hail ! Lesser than Macbeth , and greater . Banquo and Macbeth , all hail ! Why , how now , Hecate ? you look angerly . Come , let 's make haste ; she 'll soon be back again . Thrice the brinded cat hath mew 'd . Round about the caldron go ; In the poison 'd entrails throw .— Toad , that under cold stone , Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter 'd venom sleeping got , Boil thou first i ’ the charmed pot ! Speak . Say , if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths , Or from our masters ? Pour in sow 's blood , that hath eaten Her nine farrow ; grease that 's sweaten From the murderer 's gibbet throw Into the flame . He knows thy thought : Hear his speech , but say thou naught . He will not be commanded : here 's another , More potent than the first . Show ! Ay , sir , all this is so :— but why Stands Macbeth thus amazedly ?— Come , sisters , cheer we up his sprites , And show the best of our delights ; I 'll charm the air to give a sound , While you perform your antic round ; That this great king may kindly say , Our duties did his welcome pay .