In a dark cavern, a bubbling cauldron hisses and spits, and the three ____ suddenly appear onstage. They circle the ____, chanting spells and adding strange ingredients to their stew—“eye of newt and toe of ____, / Wool of bat and tongue of dog” . Hecate appears and compliments the witches on their work. One of the witches then chants: “By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way ____. Just as the witches predicted, ____ enters. He asks the witches to reveal the truth of their ____ to him. To answer his questions, they summon horrible apparitions, each of which offers a prediction to relieve Macbeth of his ____. First, a floating ____ warns him to beware Macduff; Macbeth says that he has already guessed as much. Then a bloody ____ appears and tells him that “none of woman born / shall harm Macbeth” . Next, a crowned child holding a tree tells him that he is safe until Birnam ____ moves to Dunsinane Hill. Finally, a procession of eight crowned ____ walks by, the last carrying a mirror. Banquo’s ____ walks at the end of the line. Macbeth asks to know the meaning of this final vision, but the witches perform a mad dance and then ____. Lennox enters and tells Macbeth that ____ has fled to England. Macbeth resolves to send murderers to capture Macduff’s ____ and to kill Macduff’s wife and ____

Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1

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