Note 569 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may]
Preceded in MS. by the words “A charme Song about a Vessell,”—is the “Song” of the witches “about the caldron,” Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. In the folios of Shakespeare we find only “Musicke and a Song. Blacke Spirits, &c.;” in later editions the rest has been supplied from Davenant’s alteration of Macbeth, (see note, p. 303) where what follows in our text is inserted, with some variations.