mean witches ready to who knows what. . .

SCENE I. A desert place.

 

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches

First Witch

When shall we three meet again

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

 

Second Witch

When the hurlyburly's done,

When the battle's lost and won.

 

Third Witch

That will be ere the set of sun.

 

First Witch

Where the place?

 

Second Witch

Upon the heath.

 

[. . .]

 

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

Done