Act 2 49-55 Flashcards
ACT 2
What keeps you so late? It’s almost dark.
I were planting far out to the forest edge.
Oh, you’re done then
Aye, the farm is seeded. The boys asleep?
They will be soon.
Praying now for a fair summer
Aye
Are you well today?
I am. It is a rabbit.
Oh is it! In Jonathan’s trap?
No she walked into the house this afternoon. I found her sittin’ in the corner like she come to visit
Oh, that’s a good sign walking in
Pray God. It hurt my heart to strip her, poor rabbit
It’s well seasoned
I took great care. She’s tender?
I think we’ll see field greens soon.
That’s well
How would that please you?
Aye it would
I mean to please you Elizabeth
I know it John
Cider?
Aye!
The farm is a continent when you go foot by foot dropping seeds
It must be
You ought to bring some flowers in the house
Oh I forgot I will tomorrow
Lilac is the smell of nightfall I think. Massachusetts is a beauty in the spring
Aye it is
I think you’re sad again. Are you?
You come so late I thought you’d gone to Salem this afternoon
Why? I have no business in Salem
You did speak of going, earlier this week
I thought better of it since
Mary Warren’s there today
Why do you let her? You heard me forbid her to go to Salem anymore
I couldn’t stop her
….Elizabeth you are the mistress here, not Mary Warren
She frightened all my strength away
How may that mouse frighten you Elizabeth? You –
It is a mouse no 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”
Court! What court?
Aye, It is a proper court they have now. They’ve sent for judges out of Boston, she says, weighty magistrates of the general court and at the head sits the deputy governor of the Providence
Why, she’s mad.
I would to god she were. There be 14 people in jail now. And they’ll be tried and the court have power to hang them too
Ah they’d never hang
The deputy governor promise hangin if they’ll not confess, John. The town’s gone wild I think. She speak of Abigail and I thought she were a saint, to hear her. Abigail 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 they scream and howl and fall to the floor – the persons clapped in the jail for bewitchin’ them.
Oh it is a black mischief
I think you must go to Salem, John. I think so. You must tell them it is a fraud
Aye, 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 at her uncles house. She said it had naught to do with witchcraft, did she not?
Aye, she did, she did
God forbid you keep that from the court, John. I think they must be told
Aye, they must, they must. It is a wonder they do believe her.
I would go to Salem now, John – let you go tonight
I’ll think on it
You cannot keep it, John
I know I cannot keep it. I Say I will think on it
Good, then, let you think on it
….She told it to me in a room alone – I have no proof for it.
You were alone with her?
For a moment alone, Aye
Why, then, it is not as you told me
For a moment I say. The others come in soon after
Do as you wish then
Woman. I will not have your suspicion anymore
I have no-
I’ll not have it!
Then let you not earn it
You doubt me yet?
John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt would you falter now? I think not
No look you –
I see what I see, John
…….Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore. I have forgot Abigail and
And I
…..I cannot speak but I am doubted every moment judge for lies as though I come into a court when I come into this house
John, you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd you said. Now you –
I’ll plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth
John I am only –
…..But you’re not and let you remember it. Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not
I 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
