Double, double

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.

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

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 howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Excerpt of the Witches Chant from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Portrait in gouache of the Three Witches from Macbeth brewing over a cauldron. But unlike other artistic representations of the witches, this painting shows them as beautiful and youthful. That's because the artist Daniel Gardner painted real-life women: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne with Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire and Anne Seymour Damer.

The Three Witches from Macbeth by Daniel Gardner Frame: Louis XIII style Ovolo frame