Macbeth
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A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come.
Weird sisters
Wound up
Forres
By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips:
All Hail
Sinel
Glamis
Hail!
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Witches vanish
Weird sisters
The modern day meaning of weird, that which is strange or odd, does not really apply here. Weird comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'wyrd' meaning fate or destiny. The weird sisters are fore-tellers of Macbeths fate.
