With their attenuate shadows, as might dance

Phantom with flaffing phantom; at my side,

The white and shuddering grasses of the grave,

With nettles, and the parching fumitory,

Whose leaves, root-trellised on the bones of death,

Will rasp and bristle to the lightest wind.

(The first witch moves on, and approaches again, after a long interval.)

FIRST WITCH:

Sister, what seest or what hearest thou?

SECOND WITCH: