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ANIMAL SIMPLES

APPROVED

FOR MODERN USES OF CURE.

Author of "Herbal Simples," "Botanical Outlines," etc., etc.

"If the rascal have not given me medicines to make
me love him, I'll be hanged."

King Henry IV, PART I-Act II, Sc. II.

BRISTOL: JOHN WRIGHT & CO.

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD
HIRSCHFELD BROS., 82, HIGH HOLBORN.

1899.

JOHN WRIGHT AND CO.,

PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, BRISTOL.

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"Round about the Cauldron go:

In the poison'd entrails throw-
Toad, that under coldest stone
Days and nights has't thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!

"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, owlet's wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil, and bubble!

"Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy; maw, and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock, digged 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.
"Double, double toil and trouble:

Fire, burn and Cauldron, bubble!
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good."

THE WITCHES-Macbeth, Act iv, Sc. i.