64-67 Flashcards
Surely your excellency is not taken by this simple lie.
Abigail Williams! I bid you now search your heart, and tell me this— and beware of it child, to God every soul is precious and His vengeance is terrible on them that take life without cause. Is it possible, child, that the spirits you have seen are illusion only, some deception that may cross your mind when…
Think you to be so mighty that the power of hell may not turn your wits?!— beware of it!— there is…
What is it, child?
Abby don’t do that!
Mary Warren do you witch her? I say to you, do you send your spirit out!
Whore! How dare you call heaven!
Man! What do you—?
It is a whore.
Now, here, here…!
You charge—
Mark her, now she’ll suck a scream to stab me with, but—
You will prove this, this will not pass.
I have known her, sir. I have… known her
You… you are a lecher?
A man will not cast away his good name, sir, you surely know that—
In what time…? In what time, in what place?
My wife is innocent, except she know a whore when she see one.
You deny every scrap and tittle of this?
She does not deny it, Mr Danforth. She does not deny it!
You will remain where you are. Sit you down! Mister Parris, go into the court and bring Goodwife Proctor out. Mister Parris. And tell no one word of what’s been spoken here. And let you knock before you enter. Now we shall go to the bottom of this swamp. Your wife, you say, is an honest woman?
There are them that cannot sing, and them that cannot weep— my wife cannot lie.
And when she put this girl out of your house, she put her out for a harlot—
Ay sir
And knew her for a harlot?
She knew her for a harlot.
Good, then. And if she tell me, child, may god spread his mercy on you! Hold! Turn your back. Turn your back. You do likewise. Now let neither of you turn to face Goody Proctor. No one in this room is to speak one word, or raise a gesture aye or nay. Enter! Mister Putnam, report this testimony in all exactness. Are you ready?
Ready, sir.
Come here, woman. Look at me only, not at your husband. In my eyes only.
Good, sir.
We are given to understand that at one time you dismissed your servant, Abigail Williams.
That is true, sir.
For what cause did you dismiss her?
You will look in my eyes only and not at your husband. The answer is in your memory and you need no help to give it to me. Why dismiss Abigail Williams?
She dissatisfied me and my husband.
In what way dissatisfied you?
She were…
Woman, look at me! Were she slovenly? Lazy? What disturbance did she cause?
And this girl…
Look at me!
Aye, sir. Abigail Williams…
What of Abigail Williams?
And so one night I lost my wits I think and put her out on the high road.
Your husband… did indeed turn from you?
My husband is a goodly man sir…
Then he did not turn from you!
He…
Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery? Answer my question! Is your husband a lecher!
