All requisite swart herbs of venefice,

And evil roots unto our usance ripe.

(The first witch departs, leaving the other among the tombs, and returns after a time, in the course of her search.)

FIRST WITCH:

Sister, what seest or what hearest thou?

SECOND WITCH:

I see

The moonlight, and the slowly moving gleam

That westers hour by hour on tomb and stone;

And shrivelled lilies, tossed i’ the winter’s breath,