From Macbeth - by
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
/ The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
/ I have thee…
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
/ The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
/ I have thee…
Cha dèan mi corp-criadhach dhut
/ cha nochd do chruth na mo dhàin
/ cha chuir mallachd mar a chuir
/ …
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
The witches knew the truth – / smelling my wickedness / with huge hooked noses.
They say my great-grandmother
/ The witch Sultana Urošević
/ Had a she-wolf’s shadow
/
/ By moonlight she never
/ Went out of doors
/
/ So no one should tread…
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