Hell's Cauldron (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Hell's Cauldron 1. Witch. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. 2. Witch. For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 3. Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver'd in the moons eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Mind of sadist, hangman's heart, To make the gruel thick and tart. Add thereto a tiger's chaudron For the ingredients of our cauldron. All. Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 2. Witch. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Ah, how it doth reek! Apparition, speak. Apparition. I conjure you, By that which you profess, My secret you keep dark. The world must ne'er know How from hell's broth I 'merged. I am man without a soul; With warped mind, and nerves quite foul. Love and ethics I know not, And what care I; man may rot. All. Show us, tell of what thou art. Then to Acheron depart. Apparition. Could I treat with normal man, Doctoring would be my plan. Why hiss, you secret, black, and midnight hags? Lo, I am Psychiatry. Of ego and id I'll say. Thou birthed me; I'm here to stay. All. Then hide 'neath words, sham and fear; Persuade men that they, not thou, art queer. Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air. Shakespeare About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.