ARIEL Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have, and kissed The wild waves whist. Foot it featly here and there, And, sweet sprites, bear The burden. Hark, hark! SPIRITS Bow-wow. ARIEL The watchdogs bark. Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry “Cock-a-diddle-dow.” FERDINAND Where should this music be? I' th' air or th' earth? It sounds no more, and sure, it waits Some god o' th' island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the king my father’s wrack, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air. There I have followed it, Or it hath drawn me rather. But ’tis gone. No, it begins again. ARIEL Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell SPIRITS Ding-dong. ARIEL Hark, how I hear them. SPIRITS Ding-dong, bell.
Two Shakespeare Songs
Song Cycle by Alison Bauld (b. 1944)
1. Cry, cock‑a‑doodle‑doo  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, scene 2
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Language: English
First Witch
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Second Witch
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Third Witch
Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.
First Witch
Round about the cauldron 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.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Third Witch
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
Confirmed with The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Second Series, ed. by Kenneth Muir, London, Methuen Drama, 1951.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 403