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A mockery king of snow.

      — King Richard II, Act IV Scene 1

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KEYWORD: witches

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1

Comedy of Errors
[I, 2]

Antipholus of Syracuse

260

Upon my life, by some device or other
The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.
They say this town is full of cozenage,
As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
And many such-like liberties of sin:
If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.
I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave:
I greatly fear my money is not safe.

2

Comedy of Errors
[III, 2]

Antipholus of Syracuse

916

There's none but witches do inhabit here;
And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence.
She that doth call me husband, even my soul
Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,
Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace,
Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
Hath almost made me traitor to myself:
But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song.

3

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 4]

Antipholus of Syracuse

1410

I see these witches are afraid of swords.

4

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 1]

Duke of Bedford

681

Coward of France! how much he wrongs his fame,
Despairing of his own arm's fortitude,
To join with witches and the help of hell!

5

Henry VI, Part II
[II, 1]

Duke of Buckingham

913

Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold.
A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,
Under the countenance and confederacy
Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife,
The ringleader and head of all this rout,
Have practised dangerously against your state,
Dealing with witches and with conjurers:
Whom we have apprehended in the fact;
Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,
Demanding of King Henry's life and death,
And other of your highness' privy-council;
As more at large your grace shall understand.

6

Macbeth
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

[Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches]

7

Macbeth
[I, 3]

(stage directions)

97

[Thunder. Enter the three Witches]

8

Macbeth
[I, 3]

(stage directions)

180

[Witches vanish]

9

Macbeth
[III, 5]

(stage directions)

1450

[Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE]

10

Macbeth
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1547

[Thunder. Enter the three Witches]

11

Macbeth
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1586

[Enter HECATE to the other three Witches]

12

Macbeth
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1707

[Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with HECATE]

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