...hand Thus do go about about Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again to make up nine. or: Fair is foul and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air. Circle dance. All move round one way three times, then in the opposite direction three times. Make...

...sun. Where the place? Upon the heath. There to meet Macbeth. I come, Grimalkin. Paddock calls. Anon! Fair is foul, and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air. L)\6 You J\now? Madeleine L'Engle refers to Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Tempest, and Macbeth in her classic...

...gay-malicious chant of three bearded witches, experts in pains and pleasure and in corrupting the human will: 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air' (54) Levi first evokes Macbeth's witches, and then ends his tale with their actual words. At first...

...Where the place? Upon the heath. There to meet with Macbeth. I come, Graymalkin! Paddock calls. Anon! Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. 10 AA AA [Macbeth, ll 4 AA As they finish, one of them snatches the rags off his head impatiently,...

...consistently associated with air. They conclude the opening scene of the play with their equivocal chant, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air." It is not clear just what is to "hover" in the air, but presumably it is the witches themselves. When...

...screeching. I come, Graymalkin! Another sound is heard. Paddock calls. Another sound is heard. Anon. Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. The WITCHES exit. SCENE 2 - A military camp near Forres. DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and ANGUS...

...Go! This is the King when he first sees the messenger come from the battle to say how they're doing. 'What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.' Good. Macbeth when the witches have told him the news. 'Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more....

...WITHIN. ENTER KING, MALCOLME, DONALBAINE, LENOX, WITH ATTENDANTS, MEETING A BLEEDING CAPTAINE KING: What bloody man is that? he can report. As seemeth by his plight, of the Revolt The newest srare. MALCOLME: This is the Serjeant, Who like a good and hardie Souldier fought 'Gainst my Captivitie:...

...was so bad during Shakespearean times that it made its way into MacBeth. Remember the witches' chant? "Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air." Things got worse in the 1950s when London scrapped its electric tram system for diesel bus lines. That...

...while musicians speak their greetings amid a prerecorded chorus loop that sounds like ethereal omens. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair, / Hover through the fog and filthy air." Lights cross-fade to the platform with MacDunquo (played by Peter Schroff) — a hybrid character fusing...