Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Third Witch. Sister, where thou?
First Witch. A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap,
And munch’d, and munch’d, and munch’d: ‘Give me,’ quoth I:
‘Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed ronyon cries.
Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ the Tiger:
But in a sieve I’ll thither sail,
And, like a rat without a tail,
I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do.
Which statement best paraphrases the first three lines of the First Witch?
A sailor’s wife was munching on chestnuts while her husband was sailing on a ship called The Tiger.
A sailor’s wife greedily snacked on the chestnuts in her lap while waiting for her husband to return from the sea.
A sailor’s wife was eating chestnuts, but when I asked if I could have one, she yelled at me to go away.
A sailor’s wife scurried away like a rat without a tail when I demanded some chestnuts from her.
