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The Crucible
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- 1StartWhat keeps you so late? It‘s almost dark
- 2I were planting far out to the forest edge.Oh, you‘re done then.
- 3Aye, the farm is seeded. The boys asleep?They will be soon.
- 4Pray now for a fair summerAye.
- 5Are you well today?I am. It is a rabbit
- 6Oh, is it! Cider?Aye! You come so late I thought you‘d gone to Salem this afternoon.
- 7Why? I have no business in Salem.You did speak of goin‘, earlier this week
- 8I thought better of it, since.Mary Warren‘s there today
- 9Why‘d you let her? You heard me forbid her go to Salem any more!I forbid her go, and she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince,
and says to me, ―"I must go to Salem, Goody Proctor, I am an official of the court! - 10Court! What court?Ay, it is a proper court they have now. They‘ve sent four judges out of
Boston, she says, weighty magistrates of the General Court, and at the head sits the
Deputy Governor of the Province - 11Why, she‘s mad.I would to God she were. There be fourteen people in the jail now, she
says. And they‘ll be tried, and the court have power to hang them too, she says. - 12Ah, they‘d never hang….The Deputy Governor promise hangin‘ if they‘ll not confess, John. The
town‘s gone wild, I think—Mary Warren speak of Abigail as though she were a saint, to
hear her. She brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will
part like the sea for Israel. And folks are brought before them, and if Abigail scream and
howl and fall to the floor—the person‘s clapped in the jail for bewitchin‘ her. - 13Oh, it is a black mischief.I think you must go to Salem, John. I think so. You must tell them it is a
fraud. - 14Aye, it is, it is surely.Let you go to Ezekiel Cheever—he knows you well. And tell him what she
said to you last week in her uncle‘s house. She said it had naught to do with witchcraft,
did she not? - 15Aye, she did, she didGod forbid you keep
that from the court, John; I think they must be told. - 16Ay, they must, they must….It is a wonder that they do believe herI would go to Salem now, John… let you go tonight.
- 17I‘ll think on it.You cannot keep it, John.
- 18I know I cannot keep it. I say I will think on it!Good then, let you think on it.
- 19I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl‘s a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she‘s fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone—I have no proof for it.You were alone with her?
- 20For a moment alone, aye.Why, then, it is not as you told me.
- 21For a moment, I say. The others come in soon afterDo as you wish, then.
- 22Woman. I‘ll not have your suspicion any more.I have no…
- 23I‘ll not have it!Then let you not earn it.
- 24You doubt me yet?!John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I
think not - 25Now look you…I see what I see, John.
- 26You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any moreI do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I
never thought you but a good man, John, only somewhat bewildered. - 27—
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