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23 Cards in this Set
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Beginning of Act 3 |
Now, Martha Corey, there's abundant evidence in our hands to show that you have given yourself to the reading of fortunes. Do you deny it? |
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Martha Corey: I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is. |
How do you know, then, that you are not a witch? |
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Martha Corey: if I were, I would know it. |
Why do you hurt these children? |
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Giles: your hearing lies, lies. |
Arrest him, excellency! |
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Giles : they'll be hanging my wife! |
How do you dare come roaring into the court! Are you gone daft, Corey? |
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Danforth: indeed! I am amazed to find you in such uproar. I have only good report of your character, mister. Nurse. |
I think they must both be arrested in contempt, sir. |
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Francis: we have proof of it, sir they are all deceiving you. |
This is contempt, sir, contempt. |
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Hawthorn whispers in my ear |
Aye, she's the one. |
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Paris: all innocent and Christian people are happy for the courts in Salem! These people are gloomy for it. And I think you will want to know, from each and every one of them, what discontents them with you! |
I think they ought to be examined, sir. |
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Danforth: Oh? Seeing Corey's paper |
What lawyer drew this, Cory? |
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Giles: the proof is there! I have it from an honest man who heard Putnam say it! The day his daughter cried out on Jacobs, he said she'd given him a fair gift of land. |
And the name of this man? |
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Giles : what name? |
The man who give you this information. |
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Giles: why, - I cannot give you his name. |
And why not? |
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Giles: you know well why not! He'll lay in jail if I give |
This is contempt of the court, mr. Danforth! |
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Paris: the devil lives on such confidence is! Without confidences there could be no conspiracy, your honor! |
I think it must be broken, sir. |
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Proctor: she has not been a girl these 15 years, your honor. |
But a pop it will keep 15 years, will it not? |
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Giles: Aye, now she is solemn and goes to hang people. Danforth: quiet, man. |
Surely it have no bearing on the question, sir. He charges contemplation of murder. |
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Danforth: but she have danced? Paris: aye, sir. |
Excellency, will you permit me? |
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Danforth: pray, proceed. |
You say you never saw no spirits, Mary, we're never threatened or afflicted by any manifest of the devil or the Devils agents. |
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Mary Warren: no, sir. |
And yet, when people accused of witchery confronted you in court, you would faint, saying their spirits came out of their bodies and choked you. |
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Proctor: she only pretended to faint, your excellency. They're all marvelous pretenders. |
Then can she pretend to faint now? |
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Danforth: though you saw them! Mary Warren: but I did not, your honor. |
How could you think you saw them unless you saw them? |
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Mercy Lewis: your honor, I freeze! Proctor: there pretending! |
She is cold, your honor, touch her! |
