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- by Mia T
- Act IV, Scene I:
- The White House. In the middle a boiling Cauldron.
- Thunder. Enter the three (unvetted) Witches.
- FIRST WITCH. Thrice the brinded fat cat hath mew'd.
- SECOND WITCH. Thrice and once the hobbled hedge-pig whined.
- THIRD WITCH. Hubbelled Harpier cries: 'T is time, 't is time.
- FIRST WITCH (a Democrat with conspiratorial leanings):
- Round about the cauldron go;
- In the poison'd records throw.
- Foster, that under cold stone
- Days and nights has thirty-one
- Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
- Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
- ALL
- Double, trouble TOIL for HUBBELL;
- Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- SECOND WITCH (a Liberal Democrat):
- Fillet of BURTON snake,
- In the cauldron boil and bake;
- Eye of NEWT, and toe of LOTT,
- LIMBAUGH'S tongue, a forget-me-not;
- THURMOND'S fork, and THOMPSON'S sting,
- HELM'S leg, and QUAYLE wing,
- For a charm of powerful trouble
- Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
- ALL
- Double, trouble TOIL for HUBBELL;
- Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- THIRD WITCH (a stealth Conservative)
- Scale of BONIOR, tooth of WOLF,
- HILLARY'S memory, maw and gulf
- A ravin'd salt-sea shark,
- Ears of the MARTINS digg'd i' the dark,
- Gall of BILL, and McCURRY'S slips
- "Noes" of LANNY, and HUBBELL'S lips,
- Finger of ICKES ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
- Make the gruel thick and slab:
- Add thereto a Chinese squadron,
- For the ingredients of our cauldron.
- ALL
- Double, trouble TOIL for HUBBELL;
- Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- SECOND WITCH:
- Cool it with cash and blood,
- Then the charm is firm and good.
- Enter Lady MacClinton:
- LADY MacCLINTON:
- O! well done! I commend your pains,
- And every one shall share i' the gains.
- And now about the cauldron sing,
- Like elves and fairies in a ring,
- Enchanting all that you put in.
- [Music, and a Song, 'Black spirits,' and company...
- ---------from MacClinton
- O! well done! I commend your pains,