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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Andrea Maffei (1798 - 1885)

By the pricking of my thumbs
Language: English 
By the pricking of my thumbs,	
Something wicked this way comes.

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Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), appears in Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1, 44-45 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Michael Rock , no title, published [1809] [ AATTBB chorus a cappella ], glee ; London : Birchall ; in A Second Selection of Glees Composed by Members of the Concentores [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1863


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-26
Line count: 2
Word count: 11

Nel dito mignolo
Language: Italian (Italiano)  after the English 
Nel dito mignolo
Sento una doglia.
Alcuna perfida
Cosa n’è presso
Sia chi si voglia,
Trovi l’ingresso.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Andrea Maffei (1798 - 1885), no title, first published 1863 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), appears in Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1, 44-45
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-05-09
Line count: 6
Word count: 17

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