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Witch of Edmonton - Thomas Dekker John Ford William Rowley · The Witch of Edmonton

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  Speaker 1: Act one of The Witch of Edmonton by William Rowley,
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Decker and John Ford. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The
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  Speaker 1: Witch of Edmonton, which was probably first performed in sixteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, was not published until thirty five years later
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  Speaker 1: in sixteen fifty eight. It was then issued in the
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  Speaker 1: usual quarto form with the title The Witch of Edmonton.
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  Speaker 1: A known true story composed into a tragi comedy by
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  Speaker 1: divvers well esteemed poets William Rowleigh, Thomas Decker, John Ford,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, acted by the Prince's servants, often at the
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  Speaker 1: cockpit in Drury Lane, once at court with singular applause.
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  Speaker 1: The best modern reprint of the play is that in
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  Speaker 1: the Gifford Dice edition of Ford, upon which the present
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  Speaker 1: version is based. It is impossible to assign the exact
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  Speaker 1: share of the various authors in the play. The Business
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  Speaker 1: of the Witch, the rustic chorus, and certain other parts
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  Speaker 1: marked themselves out as mainly Deckers. The conception of Sir
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Clarington and the subsidiary domestic block is no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: mainly for its Rowley's share is more difficult to ascertain.
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  Speaker 1: The intimate collaboration of all three can alone be held
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  Speaker 1: accountable for some of the scenes, and indeed, in even
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  Speaker 1: the passages most characteristic of any one of the authors,
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  Speaker 1: the touch of another often shows itself in a chance
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  Speaker 1: word or phrase. The justification for the description of the
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  Speaker 1: play as a known true story is a pamphlet written
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  Speaker 1: by Henry Goodcoll and published at London in sixteen twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: giving an account of one Elizabeth Sawyer, late of Islington,
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  Speaker 1: who was executed in sixteen twenty one for witchcraft. See
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  Speaker 1: Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Person seventeen ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: No existing copy of the pamphlet is known, but the
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  Speaker 1: British Museum possesses copies of two of Goodcoal's other pamphlets
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  Speaker 1: on similar subjects. Prologue the Town of Edmonton hath lent
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  Speaker 1: to the stage a devil and a witch, both in age.
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  Speaker 1: To make comparisons, it were uncivil between so even a
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  Speaker 1: pair a witch and a devil. But as the year
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  Speaker 1: doth with his plenty bring as well as the latter
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  Speaker 1: as a former spring, so hath this witch enjoyed the
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  Speaker 1: first in reason presumes she may partake the other season
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  Speaker 1: enacts deserving name. The proverb says, once good and ever
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  Speaker 1: why not so in plays? Why not in this? Since
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  Speaker 1: gentlemen we flatter no expectation. Here is mirth and matter,
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  Speaker 1: Master Bird. The whole argument of the play is this distich,
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  Speaker 1: forced marriage, murder, murder, blood requires reproach, revenge, revenge, Hell's help,
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  Speaker 1: desires Dramatis persona Narrator read by Lydia Sir.
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  Speaker 2: Arthur Clarington read by bred Philippoe.
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  Speaker 1: Old Thorny a Gentleman read by Peter Tucker.
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  Speaker 3: Carter a Rich Yeoman read by Todd Warbeck.
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  Speaker 1: And Somerton, Suitors to Carter's Daughters.
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  Speaker 4: War Beck read by John Berlinson.
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  Speaker 5: Somerton read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 6: Frank Thorny's Son read by David Nichol.
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  Speaker 1: Old Banks a.
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  Speaker 7: Countryman read by Allan Mapstone.
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  Speaker 8: Caddybanks his Son read by Adrian Strowitt.
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  Speaker 1: Ratcliffe and Hamlet Countryman.
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  Speaker 9: Rathcliffe read by Dylan mac Farlane.
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  Speaker 10: Hamluck read by Peter Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: Morris Dancers Saga an Old Fiddler.
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  Speaker 2: Read by Brad Philippold, A Dog.
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  Speaker 11: Of Familiar read by Rob Board, A Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Read by Christinji, Countrymen, Justice, Constables, Officers, serving Men and Maids.
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  Speaker 12: The First Countryman read by Mark Thornton.
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  Speaker 13: Second Countryman read by Charlotte Duckett.
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  Speaker 14: Third Countryman read by Leannel.
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  Speaker 15: Justice read by David Olson. Constable read by David Olson.
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  Speaker 16: Mother Sawyer The Witch read by Beth Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: Anne Ratcliffe's Wife read by Newgate novelist Susan and Catherine.
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  Speaker 17: Carter's Daughters Susan read by Sonya.
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  Speaker 18: Catherine read by Christine gre.
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  Speaker 1: Winnifred, Sir Arthur's Maid read by Elizabeth Klet. Scene the
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  Speaker 1: town and neighborhood of Edmonton in the end of the
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  Speaker 1: last act London The Witch of Edmonton Act The first
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  Speaker 1: scene one the neighborhood of Edmonton. A room in the
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  Speaker 1: house of Sir Arthur Clarington, Enter Frank Thorny and Winnifred.
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  Speaker 1: Who is with child?
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  Speaker 6: Come wench, Why here's a business soon dispatched? Thy heart
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  Speaker 6: I know is now at ease. Thou needst not fear
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  Speaker 6: what thee tattling gossips in their cups can speak against
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  Speaker 6: thy fame. Thy child shall know whom to call Dad.
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  Speaker 19: Now you avere discharged the true part of an honest man.
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  Speaker 19: I cannot request a fuller satisfaction than you are freely granted.
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  Speaker 19: Yet methinks tis a hard case. Being lawful man and wife,
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  Speaker 19: we shall you should not live together.
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  Speaker 6: Had I failed in promise of my truth to thee,
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  Speaker 6: we must then have been ever sundered. Now the longest
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  Speaker 6: of our forbearing either's company is only but to gain
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  Speaker 6: a little time for our continuing thrift, that so hereafter
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  Speaker 6: the heir that shall be born shall not have cause
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  Speaker 6: to curse his hour of birth, which made him feel
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  Speaker 6: the misery of beggary and want two devils. That are
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  Speaker 6: occasions to enforce a shameful end. My plots aim but
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  Speaker 6: to keep my father's.
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  Speaker 19: Love, and that will be as difficult to be preserved
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  Speaker 19: when he shall understand how you are married, as it
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  Speaker 19: will be now should you confess it to him.
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  Speaker 6: Fathers are won by degrees, not bluntly as our masters
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  Speaker 6: or wronged friends are, And besides our use, such dutiful
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  Speaker 6: and ready means that ere he can have notice of
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  Speaker 6: what's passed. The inheritance to which I am born heir
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  Speaker 6: shall be assured that done, Why let him know it
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  Speaker 6: if you like it not, yet he shall have no
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  Speaker 6: power in him left to cross the thriving of it.
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  Speaker 19: You, who had the conquest of my man and love,
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  Speaker 19: may easily conquer the fears of my distrust. And whither
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  Speaker 19: must I be hurried?
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  Speaker 6: Prithee, do not use a word so much unsuitable to
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  Speaker 6: the constant affections of thy husband. Thou shalt live near
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  Speaker 6: Waltham Abbey with thy uncle Selman. I have acquainted him
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  Speaker 6: with all at large. He'll use thee kindly. Thou shalt
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  Speaker 6: want no pleasures nor any unfit supplies. Whatever thou canst
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  Speaker 6: in heart desire.
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  Speaker 19: All these are nothing without your company.
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  Speaker 6: Which thou shalt have once every month, at least.
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  Speaker 19: Once every month. Is this to have an husband?
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps oftener, that's as occasion serves?
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  Speaker 20: Ay?
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  Speaker 19: Ay, in case no other beauty tempt youry, whom you
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  Speaker 19: like better, I may chance to be remembered and see
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  Speaker 19: you now and then, faith, I did hope you'd not
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  Speaker 19: have used me. So tis but my fortune. And yet,
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  Speaker 19: if not for my sake, have some pity upon the
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  Speaker 19: child I go with, that's your own, Unless you'll be
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  Speaker 19: a cruel hearted father you cannot, but remember that Heaven
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  Speaker 19: knows how.
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  Speaker 6: To quit which fear at once, as by the ceremony
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  Speaker 6: late performed, I plighted THEE a faith as free from
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  Speaker 6: challenge as any double thought. Once more, in hearing of
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  Speaker 6: Heaven and THEE, I vow that never henceforth disgrace, reproof,
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  Speaker 6: lawless affections, threats, or what can be suggested against our
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  Speaker 6: marriage shall cause me falsify that bridal oath that binds
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  Speaker 6: me thine and Winifred, whenever the wanton heat of youth,
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  Speaker 6: by subtle baits of beauty, or what woman's art can practice,
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  Speaker 6: draw me from only loving thee, let Heaven inflict upon
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  Speaker 6: my life some fearful ruin. I hope thou dost believe me.
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  Speaker 19: Swear no more. I am confirmed. I will resolve to
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  Speaker 19: do what you think most behopeful for us.
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  Speaker 6: Thus, then make thyself ready at the furthest house upon
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  Speaker 6: the green without the town. Your uncle expects you for
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  Speaker 6: a little time.
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  Speaker 19: Farewell, sweet, We shall meet again as soon as thou canst.
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  Speaker 6: Possibly we shall one kiss away exit Winifred enter, Sir
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  Speaker 6: Arthur Clarington.
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  Speaker 2: Frank Thorny here sir alone, Then must I tell thee
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  Speaker 2: in plain terms, thou hast wronged thy master's host, basely.
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  Speaker 6: And ludeley your house, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, if the nimble devil that wanted in your
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  Speaker 2: blood rebelled against all rules of honest duty, you might, sir,
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  Speaker 2: have found out some more fitting place than here, to
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  Speaker 2: have built a stews in all the country. Whispers, how
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  Speaker 2: shamefully thou hast done a maid approved for modest life,
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  Speaker 2: for civil carriage till thy prevailing perjuries enticed her to
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  Speaker 2: forfeit shame? Will you be honest yet make her amends
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  Speaker 2: and marry her?
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  Speaker 6: So, sir, I might bring both myself and her to beggary,
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  Speaker 6: and that would be a shame worse than the other.
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  Speaker 2: You should have thought on this before, and then your
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  Speaker 2: reason would have overswayed the passion of your unruly lust.
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  Speaker 2: But that you may be left without excuse to solve
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  Speaker 2: the infamy of my disgraced house. And cause you are
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  Speaker 2: a gentleman, and both of you my servants, I'll make
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  Speaker 2: the made a portion, so.
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  Speaker 6: You promised me before, in case I married her. I know,
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  Speaker 6: Sir Arthur Clarington deserves the credit report have lent him.
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  Speaker 6: And presume you are a debtor to your promise, But
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  Speaker 6: upon what certainty shall I resolve? Excuse me for being
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  Speaker 6: somewhat rude, It.
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  Speaker 2: Is but reason well, Frank, what thinks Thou art two
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  Speaker 2: hundred pounds and a continual friend.
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  Speaker 6: So my poor fortunes might happily prefer me to a
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  Speaker 6: choice of a far greater portion. Yet, to write a
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  Speaker 6: wronged maid, and to preserve your favor, I am content
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  Speaker 6: to accept your proffer, Art thou sir, We shall every
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  Speaker 6: day have need to employ the use of what you
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  Speaker 6: please to give.
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  Speaker 2: Thou shalt have.
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  Speaker 6: Then I claim your promise. We are man and wife already,
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  Speaker 6: and more than so, sa I have promised her free
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  Speaker 6: entertainment in her uncle's house near Waltham Abbey, where she
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  Speaker 6: may securely sojourn till time, and my in work, my
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  Speaker 6: father's love and liking. Honest Frank, I hope so you
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  Speaker 6: will think I cannot keep her without a daily charge.
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  Speaker 2: As for the money tis all thine own. And though
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  Speaker 2: I cannot make thee a present payment, yet thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: be sure I will not fail thee.
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  Speaker 6: But our occasions, nay, nay.
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  Speaker 2: Talk not of your occasions. Trust my bounty. It shall
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  Speaker 2: not sleep hast married her. If faith Frank tis well,
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  Speaker 2: tis passing well? Then Whenefrid once more, thou art an
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  Speaker 2: honest woman. Frank, thou hast a jewel love her? She'll
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  Speaker 2: deserve it.
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  Speaker 6: And when to Waltham she is making ready, her uncle
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  Speaker 6: stays for her.
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  Speaker 2: Most provident speed, Frank, I will be thy friend, and
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  Speaker 2: such a friend thout bring her thither.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, I cannot nearly. My father sent me word I
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  Speaker 6: should come to him marry.
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  Speaker 2: And do I know thou hast a wit to handle him?
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  Speaker 6: I have a suit to you.
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  Speaker 2: What is it anything? Frank commanded that.
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  Speaker 6: You'll please by letters to assure my father that I
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  Speaker 6: am not married. How some one or other hath certainly
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  Speaker 6: informed him that I purposed to marry Winifred, on which
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  Speaker 6: he threatened to disinherit me to prevent it. Lowly, I
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  Speaker 6: crave your letters, which he seeing will credit, and I
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  Speaker 6: hope ere I return on such conditions as our frame
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  Speaker 6: his lands shall be assured.
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  Speaker 2: But what is there to quit my knowledge of the marriage?
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  Speaker 6: Why you are not a witness to it?
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  Speaker 2: I conceive and then his land confirmed. Thou wilt acquaint
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  Speaker 2: him thoroughly with all that's passed. I mean no less,
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  Speaker 2: provided I never was made privy to it.
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  Speaker 6: Alas sir, am I a talker.
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  Speaker 2: Draw thyself the letter. I'll put my hand to it.
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  Speaker 2: I commend thy policy. Thou art witty, witty, frank nay
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  Speaker 2: NATEI is fit dispatch it.
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  Speaker 6: I shall write effectually.
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  Speaker 2: Exit, go thy way, cuckoo. Have I caught the young
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  Speaker 2: man one trouble? Then is freed? He that will feast
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  Speaker 2: at others cast must be a b old face guest re.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Winifred in a riding suit.
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  Speaker 2: When I have heard the news, all now is safe.
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  Speaker 2: The worst is past. Thy lip wench kisses her. I
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  Speaker 2: must bid farewell for fashion's sake, But I will visit
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  Speaker 2: thee sudedly girl, This was cleanly carried.
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  Speaker 19: Ho wast not win ben were my happiness that I,
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  Speaker 19: in heart repent I did not bring him the dower
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  Speaker 19: of a virginity. Sir, forgive me. I have been much
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  Speaker 19: to blame. Had not my lewdness given way to your
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  Speaker 19: moderate waste of virtue, you had not, with such eagerness,
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  Speaker 19: pursued the error of your goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Dear dear Win, I hug this art of thine. It
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  Speaker 2: shows how cleanly thou canst beguile in case occasion, serve
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  Speaker 2: to practice it becomes thee. Now we share free scope enough,
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  Speaker 2: without control or fear to winterchange our pleasures, we will
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  Speaker 2: surfit in our embrace's wench. Come tell me when wilt
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  Speaker 2: thou appoint a meeting?
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  Speaker 6: What to do good?
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  Speaker 2: Good? To con the lesson of our loves, our secret game.
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  Speaker 19: Oh blush to speak it further, as you're a noble gentleman.
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  Speaker 19: Forget a sin so monstrous tis not gently done to
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  Speaker 19: open a cured wound. I know you speak for trial truth.
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  Speaker 2: You need not I for a trial? Not I by
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  Speaker 2: this good sunshine?
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  Speaker 19: Can you name that syllable of good and yet not
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  Speaker 19: tremble to think to what a foul and black intent
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  Speaker 19: you use it for an oath? Let me resolve you
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  Speaker 19: if you appear in any visitation that brings not with
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  Speaker 19: it pity for the wrongs done to abuse at thorny,
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  Speaker 19: my kind husband, if you infect mine ear with any
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  Speaker 19: breath that is not thoroughly perfumed with size for former
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  Speaker 19: deeds of lust, may I be cursed even in my prayers.
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  Speaker 19: When I vouchsafe to see or hear you, I will
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  Speaker 19: change my life from a loose hore to a repentant wife.
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  Speaker 2: Wilt thou turn monster? Now? Art not ashamed after so
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  Speaker 2: many months to be honest at last? Away, Away, Fiunt.
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  Speaker 19: My resolution is built upon a rock. This very day,
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  Speaker 19: young Thorny vowed with oaths not to be doubted, that
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  Speaker 19: never any change of love should cancel the bonds in
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  Speaker 19: which we are to either bound of lasting truth. And
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  Speaker 19: shall I, then, for my part unfile the sacred oath
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  Speaker 19: set on record in Heaven's book. Sir Arthur, do not
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  Speaker 19: study to add dear lascivious lust the sin of sacrilege.
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  Speaker 19: For if you but endeavor, by any unchaste word to
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  Speaker 19: tempt my constancy, you strive as much as in you
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  Speaker 19: lies to ruin a temple hallowed to the purity of
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  Speaker 19: holy marriage. I have said enough. You may believe me.
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  Speaker 2: Get you to your nunnery. They're freeze and your cold cloister.
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  Speaker 2: This is fine.
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  Speaker 19: Good angels guide me, sir. You'll give me leave to
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  Speaker 19: weep and pray for your conversion.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, a way to waltham pox on your honesty. Have
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  Speaker 2: you no other trick to fool me? Well?
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  Speaker 19: You may want money, yet none that I'll send for
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  Speaker 19: to you. For hire of a damnation. When I am
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  Speaker 19: going think on my just complaint. I was your devil.
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  Speaker 19: Oh be you my saint.
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  Speaker 2: Exit go go thy ways as changeable a beggage as ever,
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  Speaker 2: cousin Knight, I'm glad I'm rid of her. Honest marry Hangar.
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  Speaker 2: Thorny is my debtor. I thought to have paid him too,
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  Speaker 2: But fools have fortune.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Scene two, Edmonton. A room in Carter's house. Enter
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  Speaker 1: Old Thorny and Carter.
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  Speaker 10: You offer Master Carter like a gentleman. I cannot find
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  Speaker 10: fault with it.
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  Speaker 3: Disaffair, no gentlemen, I, Master Thorny, spare the mastership. Call
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  Speaker 3: me by my name, John Carter. Master is a title
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  Speaker 3: my father nor his before him were acquainted with. Honest
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  Speaker 3: Hertfordshire yeoman, such an one am I My word and
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  Speaker 3: my deed shall be proved one at all times. I
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  Speaker 3: mean to give you no security for the marriage.
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  Speaker 10: How no security, although it need not so long as
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  Speaker 10: you live. Yet who is he as surety of his life?
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  Speaker 10: One hour?
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  Speaker 2: Men?
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  Speaker 10: The proverbs is immortal. Else for my part, I distrust
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  Speaker 10: you not whe the sum.
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  Speaker 3: Double double treble. More or less, I tell you, Master Thorny,
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  Speaker 3: I'll give no security. Bonds and bills are but terriers
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  Speaker 3: to catch fools and keep lazy knaves busy. My security
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  Speaker 3: shall be present payment, and we hear about Edmonton, hold
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  Speaker 3: present payment as sure as an alderman's bond in London,
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  Speaker 3: Master Thorny.
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  Speaker 10: I cry you mercy, sir, I understood you not.
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  Speaker 3: I like young Frank well, so does my Susan too.
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  Speaker 3: The girl has a fancy to him, which makes me
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  Speaker 3: ready in my purse. There may be other suitors within
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  Speaker 3: that make much noise to little purpose. If Frank loves Sue,
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  Speaker 3: Sue shall have none. But Frank tis a mannerly girl,
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  Speaker 3: Master Thornton, though but a homely man's daughter. There have
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  Speaker 3: worse faces looked out of black bags.
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  Speaker 10: Man, you speak of mind freely and honestly. I marvel
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  Speaker 10: my son comes not. I'm sure he will be here sometime.
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  Speaker 3: Today, today or tomorrow. When he comes, he shall be
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  Speaker 3: welcome to bread, beer and beef yeoman's fair. We have
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  Speaker 3: no kickshawls, full dishes, whole bellyfuls. Should I die at
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  Speaker 3: three days at one of the slender City suppers, you
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  Speaker 3: might send me to barber Surgeon's hall the fourth day
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  Speaker 3: to hang up for an anatomy. Here come they that enter.
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  Speaker 1: Warbick with Susan Somerton with Catherine.
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  Speaker 3: How now girls every day play day with you Valentine's
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  Speaker 3: Day two, all by couples. Thus will young folk do
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  Speaker 3: when we are laid in our graves? Master Thorny, here's
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  Speaker 3: all the care they take? And how do you find
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  Speaker 3: the wenches? Gentlemen? Have they any mind to a loose
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  Speaker 3: gown and a straight shoe? Win em and wear em?
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  Speaker 3: They shall choose for themselves by my consent.
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  Speaker 4: You speak like a kind father. Sue thou hearest the
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  Speaker 4: liberty that's grunted thee. What sayest thou wilt thou be mine? You?
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  Speaker 17: What, sir? I dare swear?
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  Speaker 1: Never your wife.
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  Speaker 4: Canst thou be so unkind considering how dearly I affect thee? Nay,
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  Speaker 4: don't on thy perfections.
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  Speaker 17: You are studied to scholarlike in words. I understand not
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  Speaker 17: I am too cause for such a gallant's.
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  Speaker 4: Love as you are by the honor of gentility.
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  Speaker 17: Good sir, No swearing yea and nay with us prevail
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  Speaker 17: above all oaths you can.
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  Speaker 4: Invent by this right hand of thine.
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  Speaker 17: Take a false oath fi fi flatter the wise fools
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  Speaker 17: not regarded, And one of these am I.
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  Speaker 4: Dost thou despise me?
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  Speaker 3: Let them talk on, Master Thorny, I know Sue's mind.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: The fly may buzz about the candle, he shall, but
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: singe his wings when all done, Frank Frank is he
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  Speaker 3: has her heart?
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  Speaker 5: But shall I live in hope?
• 19:05
  Speaker 18: Kate better so than be a desperate man?
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Perhaps thou thinkest it is thy portion I lovel that
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  Speaker 5: wert thou as poor in fortunes as thou art rich
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  Speaker 5: in goodness. I would rather be suitor for the dower
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  Speaker 5: of thy virtues than twice thy father's whole estate. And
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: prithee be thou resolved.
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  Speaker 18: So, Master Somerton, it is an easy labor to deceive,
• 19:29
  Speaker 18: and may that will believe men's subtle promises. Yet I
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  Speaker 18: conceive of you as worthily as I presume you.
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  Speaker 5: To deserve, which is as worthily in loving thee sincerely
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  Speaker 5: as thou art worthy to be so beloved.
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  Speaker 18: I shall find time to try you do.
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  Speaker 5: Kate, do, And when I fail, may all my joys forsake.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Me, or Beckon Sue are at it. Still I laugh
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: to myself, Master Thorny, to see how earnestly beats the
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: bush while the bird is flown into another's bosom of
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: very unthrift. Master Thorny, one of the country roaring lads,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: we have such as well as the city, and as
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: arrant rake hells as they are, though not so nimble
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  Speaker 3: at their prize as a wit. Sue knows the rascal
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: to a hare's breadth, and will fit him accordingly.
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  Speaker 10: What is the other, gentleman?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: One Somerton, the honester man of the two by five
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  Speaker 3: pound in every stone weight, a civil fellow. He has
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: a fine convenient estate of land in west ham by Essex.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Master ranges that dwells by Enfield sent him hither. He
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: likes Kate well, I may tell you I think she
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  Speaker 3: likes him as well. If they agree, I'll not hinder
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  Speaker 3: the match for my part. But that warback is such another.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I use him kindly for Master Somerton's sake, for he
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: came hither first as a companion of his honest men.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Master Thorny may fall into Knave's company now and then.
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  Speaker 4: Three hundred a year, juncture.
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  Speaker 17: Sue, well, is it by sea of a land? I think?
• 21:01
  Speaker 17: By sea?
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  Speaker 4: Do I look like a captain?
• 21:04
  Speaker 17: Not a wit, Sir, should all that use the seas
• 21:07
  Speaker 17: be reckoned, captains as not a ship should have a
• 21:09
  Speaker 17: scullion in her to keep her clean?
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  Speaker 4: Do you scorn me? Mistress Susan? Am I a subject
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  Speaker 4: to be jeered at?
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  Speaker 17: Neither am I a property for you to use a
• 21:20
  Speaker 17: stale to your front want and lose discourse. Pray, sir,
• 21:24
  Speaker 17: be civil.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be angry.
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  Speaker 3: Wasp god a mercy, sue she'll firk him on my
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  Speaker 3: life if he fumble with her under frank, Master Francis Thorny,
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  Speaker 3: you are welcome. Indeed your father expected your coming. How
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  Speaker 3: does the right worshipful night, Sir Arthur Clarington your master.
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  Speaker 6: And health this morning, Sir, my JUSI now you.
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  Speaker 10: Come as I could wish.
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  Speaker 17: Aside Frank Thorny her you must excuse me.
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  Speaker 6: Virtuous misters, Susan kind Mistress Catherine kisses them, gentlemen to
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: both good time with the day.
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  Speaker 4: The like to you tis he a word friend aside
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  Speaker 4: to Somerton on my life. This is the man stands
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  Speaker 4: fair in crossing Susan's love to me.
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  Speaker 5: Aside to Warbeck, I think no less, be wise and
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: take no notice on it he that can win her
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  Speaker 5: best deserves her.
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  Speaker 1: Aside to Somerton, Mary, a serving man, Yeah, aside to Warbeck.
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  Speaker 5: Prithy friend.
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  Speaker 3: No more, gentlemen, all there's within a slight dinner ready,
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  Speaker 3: if you please to taste of it. Master Thorny, Master Francis,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Master Somerton, Why girls, what huswives? Will you spend all
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: your forenoon in the tittle tattles away? It's well in faith?
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Will you go in? Gentlemen, we'll follow.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: Presently. My son and I have a few words of
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: business at your pleasure.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It seems all but old Thorny and Frank.
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  Speaker 10: I think you guess the reason Frank, for which I
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: sent for you. Yes, sir, I need not tell you
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: with what a labyrinth of dangers daily the best part
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: of my whole estates encumbered. Nor have I any clue
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: to wind it out. But what occasion proffers me wherein?
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: If you should falter, I shall have the shame, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: you the loss. On these two points to rely our
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: happiness or ruin. If you marry with wealthy Carter's daughter,
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: there's a portion will free my land, all which I
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: will in state upon the marriage to you. Otherwise I
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: must be of necessity enforced to make a present sale
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: of all, and yet for aught I know Leavin is
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: poor distress or worse than now I Do you hear
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: the sum I told you thus before? Have you considered aunt.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: I have, sir? And however I could wish to enjoy
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: the benefit of single freedom, For that I find no
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: disposition in me to undergo the burden of that care
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: marriage brings with it. Yet to secure and settle the
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: continuance of your credit, I humbly yield to be directed
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  Speaker 6: by you in all commands.
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  Speaker 10: You have already used such thriving protestations to the maid
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  Speaker 10: that she is wholly yours, and speak the truth you
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  Speaker 10: love her?
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  Speaker 6: Do you not that to a pity, sir, I should
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  Speaker 6: deceive her.
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  Speaker 10: Better you'd been unborn. But is your love so steady
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: that you mean nay more desire to make her your wife?
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  Speaker 6: Else, sir, it were a wrong not to be righted?
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: True it were, and you will marry.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Her heaven prosper it I do intend it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: Thou art a villain, a devil like a man. Wherein
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: have I offended all the powers so much to be
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: father to such a graceless, godless son?
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: To me, sir, this Oh, my cleft heart.
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: To thee son of my curse, speak truth and blush
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  Speaker 10: thou monster? Hast thou not married? Winifred a maid was
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  Speaker 10: fellow servant with thee.
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  Speaker 6: Aside, some swift spirit has blown this news abroad. I
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: must outface it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: Do you study for excuse while all the country is flaunt.
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  Speaker 6: With your license? Tis not charitable? I am sure it
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: is not fatherly so much to be persuayed with credulous
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  Speaker 6: conceit of mere impossibilities. But fathers are privileged to think
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  Speaker 6: and talk at pleasure.
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: Why canst thou yet deny thou hast no wife?
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: What do you take me for an atheist? One that
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: nor hopes the blessedness of life hereafter, neither fears the
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: vengeance due to such as make the marriage bed an
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: inn which travelers day and night after a toilsome lodging
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  Speaker 6: leave at pleasure. Have I become so sensible of losing
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: the glory of Creation's work my soul? Oh? I have
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: lived too long?
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  Speaker 10: Thou hast dissembler. Dst thou persever yet and pull down
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: wrath as hot as flames of hell, to strike thee
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  Speaker 10: quick into the grave of horror. I believe not get
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  Speaker 10: from my.
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  Speaker 6: Sight, sir, though mine innocence needs not a stronger witness
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: than the clearness of an unperished conscience. Yet for that
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: I was informed how mainly you had been possessed of
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: this untruth. To quit all scruple, please you peruse this
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: letter tis to you from whom Sir Arthur Clarington, my master.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Sir reads aside.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: On every side, I am distracted and waded deeper into
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: mischief than virtue can avoid. But on I must Fate
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: leads me. I will follow. There you read what may confirm.
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  Speaker 10: You, yes, and wonder at it. Forgive me, Frank, credulity
• 26:47
  Speaker 10: abused me. My tears expressed my joy, and I am
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: sorry I injured.
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  Speaker 6: Innocence alas I knew your rage and grief proceeded from
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: your love to me, so I conceived it.
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  Speaker 10: My good son, I'll bear with many faults in thee
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  Speaker 10: hereafter bear thou with mine.
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  Speaker 6: The peace is soon concluded.
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  Speaker 1: Re Enter Carter and Susan.
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  Speaker 3: Why Master Thorny, do you mean to talk out your dinner?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: The company attends your coming? What must it be, Master
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Frank or son? Frank? I am playing dunstable.
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  Speaker 10: Son brother, if your daughter liked to have it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: So I dare be confident she is not altered from
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: what I left her at our parting last, are you fair? Mate?
• 27:36
  Speaker 17: She took too sure a possession of an engaged heart.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Which now I challenge Mary, and much good may it
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: do thee son, take her to thee. Get me a
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: brace of boys at a burthen Frank, the nursing shall
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: not stand thee in a penny's worth of milk. Reach
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: your home and spare not. When's the day tomorrow?
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: If you please?
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  Speaker 2: To you?
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: Ceremony of child and custom were to little purpose. Their
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: loves are married fast enough already.
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  Speaker 3: A good motion. Will ee have a household dinner and
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: let the fillers go scrape. Let the bride and bridegroom
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: dance at night together, no matter for the guests tomorrow
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: sue tomorrow. Shall us to dinner?
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: Now we are on all sides pleased.
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  Speaker 17: I hope, pray Heaven, I may deserve the blessing sent me.
• 28:25
  Speaker 17: Now my heart is settled.
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  Speaker 6: So is mine.
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  Speaker 3: Your marriage money shall be received before your wedding shoes
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: can be pulled on. Blessing on you both aside.
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  Speaker 6: No man can hide his shame from heaven that fews
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: him in vain. He flees, whose destiny pursues.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Him except end of Act one, Act too of The
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  Speaker 1: Witch of Edmonton by William Rowley, Thomas Decker and John Ford.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Act the second scene one the
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  Speaker 1: fields near Edmonton, and her mother sawyer gathering sticks.
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  Speaker 16: And why on me? Why should the envious world throw
• 29:18
  Speaker 16: all their scandalous malice upon me? Because I am poor,
• 29:22
  Speaker 16: deformed and ignorant, and like a bow buckled and bent
• 29:26
  Speaker 16: together by some more strong in mischiefs than myself? Must I,
• 29:31
  Speaker 16: for that be made a common sink for all the
• 29:34
  Speaker 16: filth and rubbish of men's tongues to fall and run into.
• 29:39
  Speaker 16: Some call me which, and being ignorant of myself, they
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: go about to teach me how to be one, urging
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: that my bad tongue, by their bad usage, made so
• 29:49
  Speaker 16: for speaks, their cattle, doth bewitch their corn, themselves, their servants,
• 29:54
  Speaker 16: and their babes at nurse. This they enforce upon me,
• 29:57
  Speaker 16: and in part make me to credit it. And here
• 30:01
  Speaker 16: comes one of my chief adversaries.
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  Speaker 7: Enter old becks out out upon thee.
• 30:08
  Speaker 16: Witch, dost call me witch?
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: I do? Witch I do? And worse I would knew
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: I a name more hateful? What makest thou upon my ground?
• 30:22
  Speaker 16: Gather a few rotten sticks to warm me.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: Down with them? When I bid thee quickly, ah, make
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: thy bows rattle in my skin?
• 30:32
  Speaker 16: Else you won't churl cutthroat miser there they are, throws
• 30:39
  Speaker 16: them down? Would they stuck across thy throat, thy bowls,
• 30:43
  Speaker 16: thy more, thy.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Midriff, sayest thou me, so hag out of my ground?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Beats her?
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  Speaker 16: Dost strike me slave, curmudgin now thy bones, ache, thy joints,
• 30:59
  Speaker 16: cramp and convulsion, stretch and crack thy sinews.
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  Speaker 7: Cursing thou hag, take that and that.
• 31:10
  Speaker 16: Beats her an exit, strike do and withered? May that
• 31:14
  Speaker 16: hand and arm whose blows have lamed me drop from
• 31:18
  Speaker 16: the rotten trunk abuse me, beat me, call me hag?
• 31:23
  Speaker 16: And which? What is the name? Where? And by what
• 31:27
  Speaker 16: art learned? What spells? What charms or invocations? May the
• 31:31
  Speaker 16: thing called familiar be purchased.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: And her Cuddy Banks and several other clowns, a.
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: New head for the tabor, and silver tipping for the pipe.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: Remember that, and forget not five leash of new bells.
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: Double bells crooked lane, You shall have them straight in
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: crooked lane. Double bells all, if it be possible.
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: Double bells, double coxcombs. Trebles, Buy me trebles, all trebles,
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: for our purpose is to be in the altitudes.
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: All trebles, not a mean, not one.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: The Morris is so cast. Will have neither mean nor
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: base in our company. Fellow Rowland, what nor a counter
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: by no means no hunting counter. Leave that to Enfield
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: chase men. All trebles all in the altitudes. Now for
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: the disposing of parts in the Morris, little or no
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: labor will serve.
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: Have you be that minded to follow your leader? No
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: me an ancient honor belonging to our house. For a
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: four horse, are a team in four gallon to the Morris.
• 32:42
  Speaker 13: My father's stable is not unfurnished.
• 32:45
  Speaker 14: So much for the four horse.
• 32:47
  Speaker 16: But how for a good hobby horse.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: For a hobby horse, let me see an almanac midsummer moon.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: Let me see ye when the moon's in the fall,
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: then's wit in the waine. No more, use your best skill.
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  Speaker 8: Your Morris will suffer an.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Eclipse, an eclipse a.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: Strange one, strange, yes, and most sudden. Remember the four gallant,
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: and forget the hobby horse. The whole body of your
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: Morris will be darkened there be of us. But tis
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: no matter. Forget the hobby horse.
• 33:29
  Speaker 12: Curdy, bangs have you forgot since he pays it? From
• 33:33
  Speaker 12: Enfield Chase to Edmonton? Cuddy, honest, Cuddy, cass, they stuff.
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: Suffer, May yee, all it shall be known. I can
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: take mine ease as well as another man. Seek your
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: hobby horse where you can get him.
• 33:49
  Speaker 12: Cuddy, you're honest, Cuddy, we confess, and we are sorry
• 33:53
  Speaker 12: for our neglect.
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: The old horse shall have a new bridle, the comparison's.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: New painted, the tail rep the snaffle, and the boss
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: is nusaffroned or.
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  Speaker 14: Kind, honest, loving, ingenious.
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  Speaker 21: Affable Cuddy, to show, I am not flint but affable,
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  Speaker 21: as you say, very well stuffed a kind of warm
• 34:17
  Speaker 21: dough or puff paste.
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  Speaker 8: I relent, I connive, most affable jack. Let the hobby
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: horse provide a strong back. He shall not want a
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: belly when I am on him.
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  Speaker 1: But seeing Sawyer ood me mother Sawyer.
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: The old witch of Edmonton, our be not.
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  Speaker 13: Crusted, bless us Cuddy, and let her curse her tether
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: eye out?
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: What does now ungirt? Unblessed, says the proverb, But my
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: girdle shall serve for a riding knot. And I think
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: for all the witches in Christendom, what wouldst thou?
• 34:57
  Speaker 12: The devil cannot abide to be crusted and scorns.
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: To come any man's vessel.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Away with the witch, away with the witch, add exempt
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: in strange pastures.
• 35:10
  Speaker 16: Still vexed, still tortured. That curmudgeon Banks is ground of
• 35:15
  Speaker 16: all my scandal. I am shunned and hated, like a
• 35:18
  Speaker 16: sickness made of scorn, to all degrees and sexes. I
• 35:22
  Speaker 16: have heard Old Beldam's talk of familiars in the shape
• 35:26
  Speaker 16: of mice, rats, ferrets, weasels, And I wo not what
• 35:31
  Speaker 16: that have appeared and suck'd. Some say their blood, but
• 35:34
  Speaker 16: by what means they came acquainted with them? I am
• 35:37
  Speaker 16: now ignorant. Would some power, good or bad instruct me
• 35:42
  Speaker 16: which way I might be revenged upon this churl, I'd
• 35:45
  Speaker 16: go out of myself and give this fury leave to
• 35:48
  Speaker 16: dwell within this ruined cottage, ready to fall with age,
• 35:52
  Speaker 16: abdure all goodness, be at hate, with prayer and study curses, imprecations,
• 35:58
  Speaker 16: blasphemous speeches, oaths, detested oaths, or anything that's ill, so
• 36:03
  Speaker 16: I might work revenge upon this miser, this black cur
• 36:08
  Speaker 16: that barks and bites and sucks the very blood of
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: me and my credit. Tis all one to be a witch,
• 36:15
  Speaker 16: as to be counted one vengeance shame ruin light upon
• 36:20
  Speaker 16: that canker.
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: Enter a black doc How have I found THEE cursing?
• 36:28
  Speaker 11: Now thou art mine own thine?
• 36:32
  Speaker 16: What art thou?
• 36:34
  Speaker 17: He?
• 36:34
  Speaker 11: Thou hast so often importuned to appear to THEE the devil?
• 36:41
  Speaker 16: Bless me the devil.
• 36:43
  Speaker 11: Come, do not fear. I love THEE much too well
• 36:48
  Speaker 11: to hurt or fright THEE. If I seem terrible, it
• 36:54
  Speaker 11: is to such as hate me. I have found thy
• 36:58
  Speaker 11: love unfeigned, seen and pitied thy open wrongs, and come
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  Speaker 11: out of my love to give THEE just revenge against
• 37:10
  Speaker 11: thy foes.
• 37:12
  Speaker 16: May I believe THEE.
• 37:14
  Speaker 11: To confirm it. Command me do any mischief unto man
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: or beast, and I'll affect it on condition that, uncompelled
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: thou make a deed of gift of soul and body to.
• 37:31
  Speaker 16: Me out aless my soul and body.
• 37:35
  Speaker 11: And that instantly, and seal it with thy blood. If
• 37:40
  Speaker 11: thou deniest, I'll tear thy body in a thousand pieces.
• 37:47
  Speaker 16: I know not where to seek relief, but shall I,
• 37:50
  Speaker 16: after such covenant sealed? See full revenge on all that wrong.
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: Me, silly woman. The devil is no liar to such
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  Speaker 11: as he loves. Didst ever know or hear the devil
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  Speaker 11: a liar to such as he affects?
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  Speaker 16: Then I am thine at least so much of me
• 38:14
  Speaker 16: as I can call mine.
• 38:16
  Speaker 11: Own equivocations, art mine or no speak, or I'll tear
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: all thine, seal it with thy blood.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: She pricks her arm, which she sucks thunder and lightning.
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: See now I dare call thee mine for proof, command
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  Speaker 11: me instantly. I'll run to any mischief goodness can I none?
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  Speaker 16: And I desire as little. There's an old chill one thanks.
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: That wronged THEE lamed, THEE called thee witch.
• 38:56
  Speaker 16: The same first upon him. I'd be revenged.
• 39:00
  Speaker 11: Thou shalt do, but name how.
• 39:03
  Speaker 16: Go touch his life? I cannot hast thou not fowd
• 39:08
  Speaker 16: go kill the slave?
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: I won not.
• 39:12
  Speaker 16: I'll canceled. Then my gift dost laugh? Why wilt not
• 39:18
  Speaker 16: kill him?
• 39:19
  Speaker 11: Fall? Because I cannot? Though we have power, know it
• 39:25
  Speaker 11: is circumscribed and tied in limits. Though he be cursed
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: to thee, yet of himself he's loving to the world
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: and charitable to the poor. Now men that as he
• 39:40
  Speaker 11: love goodness, though in smallest measure, live without compass of
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: our reach. His cattle and corn, I'll kill and mild you,
• 39:52
  Speaker 11: but his life until I take him as I late
• 39:56
  Speaker 11: found thee cursing and swearing I've no power to.
• 40:02
  Speaker 16: Touch work on his corn and kettle.
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: Then I shall.
• 40:07
  Speaker 11: The witch of Edmonton shall see his fall, if she
• 40:12
  Speaker 11: at least put credit in my power and in mine
• 40:16
  Speaker 11: only make horizons to me, and.
• 40:19
  Speaker 16: None but me, say how and in what manner?
• 40:23
  Speaker 11: I'll tell THEE when thou wishest ill, corn, man or beast,
• 40:30
  Speaker 11: wouldst spoil or kill? Turn thy back against the sun
• 40:36
  Speaker 11: and mumble this short horizon. If thou to death or
• 40:42
  Speaker 11: shame pursue them, sanc t bacatur nomen to them.
• 40:48
  Speaker 16: If thou to death or shame pursue them, sank to
• 40:51
  Speaker 16: be satur normen toum.
• 40:54
  Speaker 11: Perfect farewell our first made promises will put in execution
• 41:01
  Speaker 11: against Banks.
• 41:03
  Speaker 16: Axit contaminator, No mentum. I'm an expert scholar, speak Latin
• 41:09
  Speaker 16: or I know not well what language, as well as
• 41:12
  Speaker 16: the best of them. But who comes here? Re enter
• 41:15
  Speaker 16: Cuddy Banks, the son of my worst foe, to death.
• 41:19
  Speaker 16: Pursue him. It sank to be say to a normentuum?
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: What's that? She mumbles, the devil's pattern? Noster? Would it
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: wear else? Mother, Sawyer?
• 41:31
  Speaker 16: Good morrow, ill morrow to thee and all the world
• 41:35
  Speaker 16: that flo out, poor old woman to death. Pursue them
• 41:39
  Speaker 16: and sunk to be satour nomendum nay good gamma Sawyer?
• 41:45
  Speaker 22: What eir?
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: It pleases my father to call you?
• 41:48
  Speaker 16: I know you are a witch?
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: A witch?
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: Would you wear else?
• 41:54
  Speaker 16: I faith your father knows I am by this?
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: I would he?
• 42:00
  Speaker 16: And so in time may you I would I might else?
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: But which or no? Which? You are a motherly woman.
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: And though my father be a kind of God, bless us,
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: as they say, I have an earnest suit to you.
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: And if you'll be so kind to calm me one
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: good turn, I'll be so courteous as to cob you another.
• 42:25
  Speaker 16: What's that to spurn? Beat me and call me? Which
• 42:29
  Speaker 16: as your kind father, doth my father.
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: I'm ashamed to own him. If he has hurt the
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: head of thy credit. There's money to buy THEE. A
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: plaster gives her money, and a small courtesy I would
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: require at thy hands.
• 42:47
  Speaker 16: You seem a good young man, And aside, I must
• 42:52
  Speaker 16: dissemble the better to accomplish my revenge. But for this silver,
• 42:58
  Speaker 16: what would to have me do bewitch thee?
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: No, by no means I am bewitched already. I would
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: have THEE so good as to unwitch me, or witch
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: another with me for company.
• 43:13
  Speaker 16: I understand THEE not be playing my son as.
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: A pike staff.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: Mother.
• 43:19
  Speaker 16: You know Kate Carter, the wealthy yeoman's daughter.
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: What of her?
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: That same party has bewitched me, bewitched thee bewitched me
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: his ski or rebus. I saw a little devil fly
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: out of her eye like a burbolt, which sticks at
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: this hour up to the feathers in my heart. Now
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: my request is to send one of thy watch he
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: call thems, either to pluck out that or stick another
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: as fast in hers do. And here's my hand. I
• 43:58
  Speaker 8: am thine for three lives.
• 44:00
  Speaker 16: Aside, we shall have sport. Thou art in love with
• 44:04
  Speaker 16: her up to the very hilts, Mother, and thou wouldst
• 44:10
  Speaker 16: have me make her love thee too.
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: Aside, I think she'll prove a witch in earnest. Yes,
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: I could find in my heart to strike her three
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: quarters deep in love with me too.
• 44:23
  Speaker 16: But dost thou think that I can do it? And
• 44:25
  Speaker 16: I alone?
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: Truly, Mother Witch, I do verily believe so. And when
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: I see it done, I shall be half persuaded.
• 44:36
  Speaker 16: So too, it is enough what art can do? Be
• 44:39
  Speaker 16: sure of? Turn to the west, and whatsoe'er thou hearest
• 44:43
  Speaker 16: or seest, Stand silent and be not afraid.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: She stamps on the ground. The dog appears and finds
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and leaps on her.
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: Afraid, Mother Witch, turn my face to the west, I said,
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: I should always have a back friend of her. How
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: it's out, and her little devil shall be hungry, come
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: sneaking behind me like a cowardly catchpole, clap his talons
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: on my haunches. Tis wounded cold, Sure I duddo and
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: shake like an aspen leaf every joint of me.
• 45:18
  Speaker 16: To scandal and disgrace pursue him. It sunk to be
• 45:22
  Speaker 16: said to a normantum acp dog. How now my son,
• 45:26
  Speaker 16: how is.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: Scarce in a clean life? Mother? Witch? But did your
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: goblin and you spout Latin together?
• 45:36
  Speaker 16: What kind of charm I work?
• 45:37
  Speaker 8: By?
• 45:38
  Speaker 16: Didst thou hear me?
• 45:39
  Speaker 12: I heard?
• 45:40
  Speaker 8: I know not the devil?
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: What mumble?
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: And a scurvy bassed tone like a drum that had
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: taken cold in the head. The last muster? Very comfortable words?
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: What were they? And who taught them?
• 45:54
  Speaker 16: You a great learned man, learned man, learned devil?
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: It was as soon? But what what comfortable news about
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: the party?
• 46:05
  Speaker 16: Who kate Carter? I'll tell thee thou knowest the style
• 46:10
  Speaker 16: at the west end of thy father's peas field be
• 46:13
  Speaker 16: there tomorrow night after sunset, And the first live thing
• 46:17
  Speaker 16: thou seest to be sure to follow, and that shall
• 46:20
  Speaker 16: bring thee to thy love.
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: In the peas field? Has she a minded codlings already?
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: The first living thing I meet, you say, shall bring
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: me to her, to.
• 46:33
  Speaker 16: A sight of her? I mean she will see wantonley
• 46:36
  Speaker 16: coy and flee thee. But follow her close and boldly
• 46:39
  Speaker 16: do but embrace her in thy arms once, and she
• 46:42
  Speaker 16: is thine own.
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: At the style at the west end of my father's
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: peace land, The first live thing I see, follow and
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: embrace her, and she shall be thine. Nay, and I
• 46:57
  Speaker 8: come to embracing once she shall be mine. I'll go
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: near to make at eight little else, Exit.
• 47:05
  Speaker 16: A bull well bandied. Now the SIT's half one, the
• 47:09
  Speaker 16: father's wrong. I'll rake upon the sun.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Exit scene to Carter's house. Enter Carter, Warbeck, and Somerton.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: How now, gentlemen, Cloudy, I know, Master Warbeck, you are
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: in a fog about my daughter's marriage.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: And can't you blame me, sir.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: Nor you me justly. Wedding and hanging are tied up
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: both in a proverb, and destiny is the juggler that
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: unties the knot. My hope is you are reserved to
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: a richer fortune than my poor daughter.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: However, your promise is a kind of debt. I confess it,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: which honest men should pay.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Yet some gentlemen break in that point now and then,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: by your leave, sir.
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: I confess thou hast had a little wrong in the wench.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: But patience is the only salve to cure it. Since
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: Thorny has won the wench, he has most reason to
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: wear her.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: Love in this kind admits no reason to wear her.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Then Love's a fool, and what wise man will take exception.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Come frolic ned. Were every man master of his own fortune,
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: fate might pick straws, and destiny go a wool gathering.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: You hold yours in a string, though tis well. But
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: if there be any equity, look thou to me like you, sirge.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: Ere long in my love to her sister Catherine. Indeed
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: they are a pair of arrows drawn out of one quiver,
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: and should fly at an even length. If she do
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: run after her sister.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: Look for the same mercy at my hands as I
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: have received at dying.
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: She'll keep a surer compass. I have too strong a
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: confidence to mistrust her, and.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: That confidence is a wind that has blown many a
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: married man ashore at Cuckled's haven. I can tell you
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: I wish yours more prosperous.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: Though whate'er you wish. I'll master my promise to.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: Him, Yes, as you did to me.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: No more of that if you love me, But for
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: the more assurance the next offered occasion, he'll consummate the marriage,
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: And that, once sealed.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: Leave the manager of the rest to my care. But
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: see the bridegroom and bride come the new pair of Sheffield,
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: knives fitted both to one sheath.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: The sheath might have been better fitted if somebody had.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Led you, But no harsh language. If thou lovest me,
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Frank Thorny has done no more.
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: Than I or thou, or any man thinks so standing
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: would have attempted.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Enter Frank Thorny and Susan good.
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  Speaker 5: Morrow, Master, bridegroom.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Come give thee joy. Mayst thou live long and happy
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: in thy fair choice.
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  Speaker 6: I thank you, gentlemen, kind Master Warbeck, I find you loving.
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  Speaker 4: Thorny, that creature much good.
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: Do THEE, with her.
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  Speaker 4: Virtue and beauty, hold fair mixture in her? She's rich,
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: no doubt in both. Yet were she fairer? Thou art
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: right worthy of her love? Her Thorny tis nobleness in
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: THEE in her but duty the match is fair and
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: equal the success I leave to censure. Farewell, mistress bride,
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: till now elected, thy old scorn de ride exit.
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: Good Master Thorny.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: Nay you shall not part. Do you see the barrels
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: run a tilt?
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: Gentlemen, exit with Somerton.
• 50:55
  Speaker 17: Why changing your face? Sweetheart?
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: Who I for nothing dear?
• 51:00
  Speaker 22: Say not so?
• 51:02
  Speaker 17: A spirit of your constancy cannot endure this change for nothing.
• 51:06
  Speaker 17: I have observed strange variations in you.
• 51:09
  Speaker 22: In me.
• 51:11
  Speaker 17: In you, sir, awake, you seem to dream, and in
• 51:15
  Speaker 17: your sleep you utter sudden and distracted accents like one
• 51:19
  Speaker 17: at enmity with peace, dear loving husband, if I may
• 51:24
  Speaker 17: dare to challenge any interest in you, give me the
• 51:27
  Speaker 17: reason fully. You may trust my breast as safely as.
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: Your own with what you half amazed me, prithee.
• 51:35
  Speaker 17: Come, you shall not, indeed you shall not shut me
• 51:38
  Speaker 17: from partaking the least dislike that grieves you.
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: I am all yours and I all thine.
• 51:46
  Speaker 17: You are not if you keep the least grief from me,
• 51:49
  Speaker 17: But I find the cause it grew from me from you,
• 51:54
  Speaker 17: from some distaste in me or my behavior. You are
• 51:59
  Speaker 17: not kind in theealment less, sir, I am young, silly,
• 52:03
  Speaker 17: and plain, more strange to those contents a wife should offer. Say,
• 52:09
  Speaker 17: but in what I fail, I'll study satisfaction. Come in
• 52:13
  Speaker 17: nothing I know I do knew I as well in
• 52:17
  Speaker 17: what you should not long be sullen, prithee love. If
• 52:22
  Speaker 17: I have been immodest or too bold, speak it in
• 52:25
  Speaker 17: a frown, if peevishly too nice, show it in a smile.
• 52:31
  Speaker 17: Thy liking is the glass by which I'll have it
• 52:33
  Speaker 17: my behavior.
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: Wherefore doest weep?
• 52:36
  Speaker 17: Now, you sweet, have the power to make me passionate
• 52:39
  Speaker 17: as an April day. Now smile, then weep, Now pale,
• 52:44
  Speaker 17: then crimson red. You are the powerful moon of my
• 52:47
  Speaker 17: blood sea, to make it ebb or flow into my
• 52:50
  Speaker 17: face as.
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: Your looks change, change thy conceit, I prithee, thou art
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: all perfection. Diana herself swells in thy thoughts and moderates
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: thy beauty within thy left eye. Amorous Cupid sits feathering
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: love shafts, whose golden heads he dipp'd in thy chaste breast.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: In the other lies blushing Adonis scarfed in modesties, and
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: still as wanton Cupid blows love fires. Adonis quenches out
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: unchaste desires. And from these two I briefly do imply
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: a perfect emblem of thy modest eye. Then, prithee, dear,
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: maintain no more dispute. For when thou speak'st it's fit,
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: all tongues be mute.
• 53:36
  Speaker 17: Come come, these golden strings of flattery shall not tie
• 53:39
  Speaker 17: up my speech. Sir, I must know the ground of
• 53:43
  Speaker 17: your disturbance.
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: Then look here for Here here is the fen in
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: which this hydra of discontent grows.
• 53:50
  Speaker 17: Rank heaven shielded, where in mine.
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: Own bosom, Here the cause has root. The poisoned leeches
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: twist about my heart, and will I hope confound me?
• 54:01
  Speaker 17: You speak riddles?
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: Take it plainly, then, twas told me by a woman
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: known and approved in palmistry, I should have two wives.
• 54:12
  Speaker 17: Two wives, sir, I take it exceeding likely. But let
• 54:17
  Speaker 17: not concede hurt you. You're afraid to bury me?
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: No, no, my Winifred?
• 54:22
  Speaker 17: How say you Winifred?
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: You forget me?
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: No, I forget myself, Susan, In what talking of wives,
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: I pretend Winifred a maid that at my mother's waited
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: on me before thyself.
• 54:38
  Speaker 17: I hope, sir, she may live to take my place.
• 54:40
  Speaker 17: But why should all this move you? The poor girl aside?
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: She has it before THEE, and that's the fiend torments me.
• 54:50
  Speaker 17: Yet why should this raise mutiny within you? Such presages
• 54:54
  Speaker 17: prove often faulse or say it.
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: Should be true that I should have another wife.
• 55:00
  Speaker 17: Yes, many, if they be good, the better.
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: Never any equal to THEE.
• 55:05
  Speaker 17: In goodness, sir, I could wish I were much better
• 55:08
  Speaker 17: for you. Yet if I knew your fate ordained you
• 55:11
  Speaker 17: for another, I could wish so well. I love you
• 55:15
  Speaker 17: and your hopeful pleasure, me and my grave and my
• 55:18
  Speaker 17: poor virtues added to my successor.
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: Prithee, prithee, talk not of deaths or graves. Thou art
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: so rare a goodness as death would rather put itself
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: to death than murder thee. But we, as all things else,
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: are mutable and changing.
• 55:36
  Speaker 17: Yet you still move in your first sphere of discontent.
• 55:39
  Speaker 17: Sweet chase those clouds of sorrow, and shine clearly on me.
• 55:44
  Speaker 22: At my return, I will return, ah me, Will you
• 55:49
  Speaker 22: then leave me for a time?
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: I must? But how as birds their young, or loving
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: bees their hives to fetch home richer dainties.
• 56:00
  Speaker 17: Leave me now? Has my fear mad it's effect? You
• 56:03
  Speaker 17: shall not cost it my life.
• 56:05
  Speaker 6: You shall not why your reason like to.
• 56:09
  Speaker 17: The lap wing, have you all this while with your
• 56:11
  Speaker 17: false love deluded me, pretending counterfeat senses for your discontent?
• 56:17
  Speaker 17: And now at last it is by chance.
• 56:19
  Speaker 22: Stove from you?
• 56:20
  Speaker 17: What?
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: What?
• 56:21
  Speaker 17: By chance your pre appointed meeting of single combat with
• 56:25
  Speaker 17: young warback? Ha Even so dissemble not tis to a parent?
• 56:32
  Speaker 17: Then in his look I read it, deny it not.
• 56:35
  Speaker 17: I see the parent cost it my undoing, and unto
• 56:39
  Speaker 17: that my life.
• 56:40
  Speaker 22: I will not leave you, not until when till he
• 56:44
  Speaker 22: and you be friends.
• 56:47
  Speaker 17: Was this your cunning and then flam me off with
• 56:50
  Speaker 17: an old witch? Two wives and Winifred? You are not
• 56:53
  Speaker 17: so kind indeed as I imagined aside, and you are
• 56:57
  Speaker 17: more fond by father than I expected.
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: It is a virtue that attends thy kind, but of
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: our business within, and by this kiss I'll anger thee
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: no more troth, Chuck, I will not. You should have
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: no just pause, dear Sue, I.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Shall not except end of Act two, Act three of
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: The Witch of Edmonton by William Rowley, Thomas Decker, and
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: John Ford. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 57:31
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• 57:35
  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Act the third scene one
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the village Green enter Cuddy Banks with the Morris dancers.
• 57:44
  Speaker 12: Ny Cuddy, Prilly, do not leave us now. If we
• 57:48
  Speaker 12: part all this night, we shall not meet before day.
• 57:52
  Speaker 13: Hye, prithee Banks, Let us keep together.
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: If you were wise, a word would serve. But as
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: you are, I must be to tell you again, I
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: have a little private business at hour's work. It may
• 58:06
  Speaker 8: prove but half hours, as luck may serve. And then
• 58:10
  Speaker 8: I take horse, and along.
• 58:12
  Speaker 22: With you.
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: Have we air a witch in the Morris.
• 58:16
  Speaker 12: No no, no woman's part, but made Marion and the
• 58:20
  Speaker 12: hobby horse.
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: I'll have a witch. I love a witch.
• 58:25
  Speaker 23: Faith which is themselves are so common nowadays that the
• 58:30
  Speaker 23: counterfet will not be regarded. They say we have three
• 58:33
  Speaker 23: or four in Edmonton. Besides mother Sawyer.
• 58:37
  Speaker 13: I wish you would dance apart with us, So would
• 58:39
  Speaker 13: not I?
• 58:40
  Speaker 14: For if she comes the devil and all comes along
• 58:43
  Speaker 14: with her, well.
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: I'll have a witch. I have loved a witch ever
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: since I played at Cherry Pitt. Leave me and get
• 58:51
  Speaker 8: my horse dressed, give him oats, but water him not
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: till I come. Whither do we put it first?
• 59:00
  Speaker 13: There alpha Clarrington's first, than whether thou wilt well, I
• 59:04
  Speaker 13: am content, But.
• 59:06
  Speaker 8: We must up to Carter's the rich yeomen, I must
• 59:10
  Speaker 8: be seen on hobby horse there.
• 59:12
  Speaker 12: Oh, I smell him now I'll lay my years. Banks
• 59:15
  Speaker 12: is in love and that's the reason he would walk
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  Speaker 12: melancholy by himself.
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  Speaker 8: Ha Who was that said?
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  Speaker 21: I was in love?
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: Not I nor I go to no more of that.
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  Speaker 8: When I understand what you speak, I know what you say.
• 59:32
  Speaker 12: Believe that well, twas I I'll not deny it.
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  Speaker 20: I meant no. Hr.
• 59:38
  Speaker 12: I have seen you walk up to carter Chesham Banks.
• 59:43
  Speaker 12: Were you not there last trove tide?
• 59:45
  Speaker 8: Yes? I was ten days together there the last shrove tide.
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  Speaker 22: How could that be?
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  Speaker 13: When there are but seven days in a week?
• 59:53
  Speaker 8: Pretty peace, I reckon style and over as a traveler,
• 59:58
  Speaker 8: thou understandest as a freshwater farmer that never saw a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 8: week beyond sea. Ask any soldier that ever received his
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: pay but in the low countries, and he'll tell thee
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 8: there are eight days in the week. They're hard by
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 8: How dost thou think they rise? In High Germany, Italy
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: and those remoter places?
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 14: Oh, but simply they're all but seven days in the week.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: Yet, No, simply, as thou understandest, privy look, but in
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: the lover's almanac, when he has been but three days absent,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: oh says he, I have not seen my love these
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: seven years. There's a long cut when he comes to
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: her again and embraces her. Oh says he. Now methinks
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 8: I am in heaven. And that's a pretty step. He
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: that can get up to heaven in ten days need
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: not repent his journey. You may write one hundred days
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: in karosh and be further off than when you set.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 8: But I pray you good Morris mates. Now leave me.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: I'll be with you by midnight.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 12: Well, since he will be alone, we'll be back again
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 12: and trouble him no more.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: But remember Banks, the hobby horse shall be remembered. But
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 8: hark you get Paul Davis, the barber's boy, for the witch,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: because he can show his art better than another.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Exit Albert Cuddy.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: Well, now to my walk. I'm near the place where
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: I should meet.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 17: I know not what.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 8: Say I meet a thief, I must follow him. If
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 8: to the gallows, say I meet a horse, or a
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 8: hare or a hound. Still I must follow some slow
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 8: paced beast. I hope. Yet love is full of lightness
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 8: in the heaviest lovers. Ha My guide has come, and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 8: to the dark a water dog. I am thy first
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 8: man's sculler. I go with thee ply no other but
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 8: myself away with the boat land be but at Catherine's dock,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: my sweet Catherine's dock, And I'll be a fair to thee.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: That way nay which way thou wilt. Thou knowest the
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: way better than I. Fine, gentle cur, it is and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 8: well brought up. I warrant him. We go a ducking spaniel.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 8: Thou shalt fetch me the ducks, pretty, kind rascal.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Enter a spirit vizarded. He throws off his mask, etc.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: And it appears in the shape of Catherine.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 18: Thus throw off my own essential horror, and take the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 18: shape of a sweet, lovely meat whom this fall oat on.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 18: We can meet his fully, but from his virtues must
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 18: be runaways. We'll sport with him. But when he rack
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 18: him and call, we know where to rest. The witch
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 18: pace for all the dog boks.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 8: Oh, I is that the watch word?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: She's come, sees the spirit.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 8: Well, if ever we be married, it shall be a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: barking church in memory of thee. Now come behind, kind
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: cur and have I met thee, sweet Kate, I will
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 8: teach thee to walk so late. Oh see we meet
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: in meter.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: The spirit retires as he advances.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 8: What dost that trick from me? Oh? That I were
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 8: upon my hobby horse, I would mount thee so nimble,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 8: stay nymph, stay nymph, sin Apollo, tarry and kiss me
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 8: sweet nymph, stay tarryan kiss me sweet, we will too,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 8: Chesham Street. And then to the house stands in the highway. Nay,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 8: by your leave, I must embrace you.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Exit following the spirit with them.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: Oh help help, I am drowned. I am drowned.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Re enter cuddy wet.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 8: That was an ill night to go a wooing in,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 8: I find it now, and ponds almanac, thinking to land
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: at Catherine's dock. I was almost at graves End. I'll
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: never go to a wench in the dog days again.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: Yet tis cool enough? Had you never a pour in
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: this dog trick a mange, take that black heide of yours.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: I'll throw you in a limehouse, in some tanner's pit
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 8: or other. How now, who's that laughs at me? His
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 8: to him the dog bucks peace? Peace? Thou knit this
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 8: but thy kind neither twas my own fault?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 11: Take heed? How thou trustest the devil? Another time?
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 8: How now? Who that speaks? I hope you have not
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 8: your reading tongue about you? Yes, I can speak the devil?
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 8: You can you have ready SOPs fables. Then I've played
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: one of your parts. Then the dog that catch at
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 8: the shadow in the water, pray you let me catechise
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: you a little. What might one call your name? Dog?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 11: My name calls me Tom tis well, and she.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 8: May call me ass. So there's a whole one betwixt
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: us Tom Ass. She said I should follow you. Indeed, well, Tom,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 8: give me thy fist. We are friends. You shall be
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: mine Ingle. I love you, but I pray you let's
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 8: have no more of these ducking devices.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Not if you love me.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 11: Dogs love where they are beloved. Cherish me, and I'll
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 11: do anything for thee.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 8: Well, you shall have jowls and livers. I have butchers
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 8: to my friends that shall be stolen, and I will
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 8: keep crusts and bones for you. If you'll be a kind.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 11: Dog, Tom, anything i'll help thee to thy love?
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 8: Wilt thou? That promise shall cost me a brown loaf,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: though I steal it out my father's copboard. You'll eat
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: stolen goods, Tom, will you not?
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 24: Oh?
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 11: Best of all the sweetest bits, those.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 8: You shall not starve, Ningle, Tom, believe that if you
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 8: love fish, I'll help you to maids and soles. I'm
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: acquainted with a fish.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 11: Maids and souls, Oh sweet bit banqueting stuff.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Those one thing I.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 8: Would request you, Ningle as you have played the Navish
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 8: cur with me a little that you would mingle amongst
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 8: our Morris dancers. In the morning you.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 11: Can dance, Yes, yes, anything. I'll be there, but unseen
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 11: to any but thyself. Get thee gone before fear not
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 11: my presence. I have work tonight. I serve more masters,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 11: more dames than one.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 8: He can serve. Memon and the Devil. Two.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 11: It shall concern thee and thy love's purchase. There is
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 11: a gallant rival loves the maid and likely is to
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 11: have her mark. What a mischief before the Morris ends
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 11: shall light on him?
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 8: Oh sweetness, thy nof once again friends must part for
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 8: a time. Farewell with this remembrance. Shalt have bread too
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 8: when we meet again. If ever there were an honest devil,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 8: tw will be the devil of Edmonton. I see farewell Tom,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 8: I pretty dog me. As soon as thou canst.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 11: Exit, I'll not miss thee and be merry with thee.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 11: Those that are joys denied must take delight in sins
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 11: and mischiefs. Tis the devil's right.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene two, The neighborhood of Edmonton. Enter Frank Thorny
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: and Winifred and boys clothes.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 6: Prithee no more. Those tears give nourishments to weeds and
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 6: briars in me, which shortly will all grow and top
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: my head. My shame will sit and cover all that
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: can be seen of me.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 19: I have not shown this to in company. Pardon me
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 19: now thus singled with yourself. It calls a thousand sorrows
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 19: round about, some going before and some on either side,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 19: but infinite behind, all chained together. Your second adulterous marriage leads.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 19: That is the sad eclipse. The effects must follow as
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 19: plagues of shame, spite, scorn, and obloquy.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 6: Why hast thou not left one hour's patience to add
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 6: to all the rest? One hour bears us beyond the
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: reach of all these enemies? Are we not now set
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: forward in the flight, provided with the dowry of my sin,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 6: to keep us in some other nation while we together
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 6: are we are at home in any place.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 19: Tis foul ill gotten coin far worse than usury or extortion.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: Let my father then make the restitution who forced me
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: to take the bribe. It is his gift and patrimony
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: to me, so I receive it. He would not bless
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: nor look a father on me until I satisfied his
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 6: angry will. When I was sold, I sold myself again.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 6: Some knaves have died in lands, and I in body
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 6: for money, and I have the higher. But sweet no
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 6: more tis hazard of discovery our discourse, and then prevention
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 6: takes off all our hopes. For only but to take
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 6: her leave of me. My wife is coming?
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 19: Who coming? Your wife?
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 17: No?
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: No, thou art here that woman? I knew not how
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: to call her now, But after this day she shall
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 6: be quite forgot and have no name in my remembrance.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 6: Does he see she's come? And Susan, go lead the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: horses to the hills top There I'll meet thee.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 17: Nay, with your favor, let him stay a little. I
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 17: would part with him too, because he is your sole companion.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 17: And I'll begin with him, reserving you the last.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 6: I with all my heart.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 22: You may hear, if it please you, sir, No, tis
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 22: not fit.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 6: Some rudiments I can see. They must be to overlook
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 6: my slippery footings. And so no, indeed, Sir Tush, I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: know it must be so, and tis necessary on.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 8: But be brief walks forward.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 19: What charge so e'er you lay upon me, Mistress, I
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 19: shall support it faithfully, being honest to my best strength.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 17: Believe shall be no other. I know you were commended
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 17: to my husband by a noble knight.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 19: Oh gods, oh mine eyes.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 17: How now what ails thou lad?
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 19: Something hit mine eye? It makes it water still. Even
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 19: as you said, commended to my husband some door, I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 19: think it was, I was pursued commended to him by
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 19: Sir Arthur Clarington.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 17: Who servant once my thorny was himself. That title methinks
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 17: should make you almost fellows, or at least much more
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 17: than a servant. And I am sure he will respect you.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 17: So your love to him then needs no spur from me.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 17: And what for my sake you will ever do tis fit?
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 17: It should be bought with something more than fair entreats. Look,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 17: here's a jewel for THEE, a pretty wanton label for
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 17: an ear, and I would have it hang there still
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 17: to whisper these words to THEE. Thou hast my jewel
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 17: with THEE? It is but earnest of a larger bounty
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 17: when thou returnst with praises of thy service, which I
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 17: am confident thou wilt deserve. Why thou art many now
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 17: besides thyself, Thou mayst be servant, friend and wife to him.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 17: A good wife is them all. A friend can play
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 17: the wife and servant's part and shift enough. No less
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 17: the servant can the friend and wife tis all but
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 17: sweet society, good counsel interchanged loves, yes, and counsel keeping.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 19: Not done yet even now, sir mastress, believe my vow,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 19: your severe eye word present to command. Your bounty is
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 19: hand for it. Then buy, to buy or bribe. My
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 19: service shall not make me more dear or nearer unto
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 19: him than I shall voluntary. I'll be all your charge, servant, friend,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 19: wife to him.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 17: Wilt thou now, blessings go with thee for it, courtesies,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 17: show meet thee coming home.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 19: Pray you say, plainly, mistress, are you jealous of him?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 19: If you be, I'll look to him that way, too.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 17: Sayest thou, so I would thou hast a woman's bosom.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 17: Now we have weak thoughts within us, alas there's nothing
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 17: so strong in us as suspicion. But I dare not nay,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 17: I will not think so hardly of my thorny.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 19: Believe it, Mistress, I'll be no pander to him. And
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 19: if I find any loose lubric scapes in him, I'll
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 19: watch him and at my return protest, I'll show you all.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 19: He shall hardly offend without my knowledge.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 17: Thine own diligence is that I press, and not the
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 17: curious eye over his faults. Farewell, if I should never
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 17: see thee more, take it forever.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: Prithee take that along with thee handing his sword to Winnifred,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 6: and haste thee to the hills top.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 17: I'll be there instantly, No haste, I prithee slowly as
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 17: thou canst except when pray let him obey me now,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 17: 'tis happily his last service to me? My power is
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 17: even a going out of sight?
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: Why would you delay? We have no other business now
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: but depart, and will.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 17: Not let sweetheart ask a long time? Methinks it is
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 17: the hardest piece of work that ever I took in hand.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: Fye, fye, why look, I'll make it plain and easy
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 6: to you.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 17: Farewell, kisses her alas I'm not half perfect in it,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 17: yet I must have it read over one hundred times.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 17: Pray you take some pains, I confess my dullness aside.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 6: What a thorn this rose grows on? Parting was sweet?
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 6: But what a trouble t will be to obtain it
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 6: come again and again farewell kisses her, Yet will return
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 6: all questions of my journey, my stay, employment, and revisitation.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 6: Fully I have answered all. There's nothing now behind but nothing, and.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 17: That nothing is more heart than anything than all the everythings.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 17: This request, what is it that I may bring you
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 17: through one pasture more up to your knot of trees
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 17: amongst those shadows I will vanish from you.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 22: They shall teach me how why it is granted? Come
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 22: walk then, Nay.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 17: Not too fast, they say, slow things have best perfection.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 17: The gentle shower weds to fertility. The churdish storm may
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 17: mischief with its bounty. The baser beasts takes strength even
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 17: from the womb, But the lord Lion's wealth is feeble.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: Long except Scene three, a field with a clump of trees.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: Enter the dark.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 11: Now for an early mischief and a sudden The mind's
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 11: about it now. One touch from me soon sets the
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 11: body forward.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: Enter Franken Sissan, Your request is out? Yet will you
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 6: leave me?
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 17: What so churlishly you'll make me stay forever rather than
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 17: part with such a sound from you?
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 6: Why you almost anger me? Pray you begone? You have
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: no company, And tis very early some hurt may be
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: tiede you homewards.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 17: Tush, I fear none. To leave you is the greatest
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 17: hurt I can suffer. Besides, I expect your father and
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 17: mine own to meet me back, overtake me with you.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 17: They began to stir when I came after you.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: I know they will not be long, so I shall
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: have more trouble.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: The dog rubs against him.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 8: Thank you for that aside.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: Then I'll ease all at once. It is done. Now
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 6: what I ne'er thought of. You shall not go back.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 17: Why shall I go along with deep sweet music?
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: No to a better place, any place.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 17: I I am there at home where thou pleasest to.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 6: Have me at home. I'll leave you in your last lodging.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 6: I must kill you.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 17: Oh fine, you'd fright me from you.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: You see I had no purpose. I'm unarmed. Tis this
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 6: minute's decree, and it must be. Look, this will serve
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 6: your turn.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Draws a knife.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 17: I'll not turn from it. If you be earnest, sir,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 17: Yet you may tell me wherefore.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 25: You will kill me?
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 6: Because you are a whore.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 17: There's one deep wound already, A whore twas ever further
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 17: from me than the thought of this black hour a whore.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'll prove it, and you shall confess it. You
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: are my whore. No wife of mine, the word admits
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: no second. I was before wedded to another, have her still,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 6: I do not lay the sin unto your charge. It
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 6: is all mine own. Your marriage was my theft. For
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 6: I espoused your dowry, and I have it. I did
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 6: not purpose to have added murder. The devil did not
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: prompt me till this minute. You might have safe returned.
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  Speaker 6: Now you cannot. You have dogged your own.
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  Speaker 17: Death stabs her, and I deserve it. I am glad
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  Speaker 17: my fate was so intelligent. Twas some good spirit's motion die,
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  Speaker 17: Oh twas time. How many years might I have slept
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 17: in sin? The sin of my most hatred, too adultery?
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  Speaker 6: Nay, sure it was likely that the most was past,
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  Speaker 6: For I meant never to return to you after this parting.
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  Speaker 17: Why then I thank you more. You have done lovingly
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 17: leaving yourself, that you would thus bestow me on another.
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  Speaker 17: Thou art my husband death, and I embrace THEE with
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 17: all the love I have. Forget the stain of my
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  Speaker 17: unwitting sin. And then I come a crystal virgin to thee.
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  Speaker 17: My soul's purity shall with bold wings ascend the doors
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  Speaker 17: of mercy. For innocence is ever her companion.
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  Speaker 6: Not yet mortal. I would not linger you, or leave
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: you a tongue.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: To blab stabs her again.
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  Speaker 17: Now Heaven reward you, never the worse for me. I
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 17: did not think that death had been so sweet, nor
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 17: I so apt to love him. I could never die
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 17: better had I stayed forty years for preparation. For I
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 17: am in charity with all the world. Let me for
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 17: once be dying example heaven due to this man, as
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 17: I am free forgive, and may he better die and
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 17: better live.
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  Speaker 6: That tis done, and I am in once past our height.
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  Speaker 6: We scorn the deepst abyss. This follows now to heal
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: her wounds by dressing of the weapon.
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  Speaker 20: Ah arms thighs AH had any place, we must not
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 20: fail wounds himself, Oh, light scratches, giving such deep ones.
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  Speaker 20: The best I can to bind myself to this tree
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 20: now is the storm, which, if blown over, many fair
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 20: days may follow.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: Binds himself to a tree. The dog ties him behind
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  Speaker 1: and exits.
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  Speaker 6: Ah so huh, I'm fast. I did not think I
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 6: could have done so well behind me? How prosperous and effectual.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: Mischief sometimes is allowed. Help help murder, murder, murder.
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  Speaker 1: Enter carter and old.
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  Speaker 26: Thorny ah whom tolls the bell for oh oh oh me,
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  Speaker 26: the cause appears too soon?
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  Speaker 10: My child, my.
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  Speaker 3: Son, susan girl child, not speak to thy father.
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  Speaker 11: Ha.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, lend me some assistance. Who are take this happless woman?
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  Speaker 10: Let's all take the murderers. Speak whilst thou canst, and
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 10: none may be too late. I fear thou hast deaths
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 10: mark upon thee too.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 6: I know them both, Yet such an oath is past
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 6: as pull's damnation up if it be broke, I dare
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 6: not name them. Think what forced men do?
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  Speaker 10: Keep both with murderers that were a conscience to hold
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 10: the devil in Lissa.
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  Speaker 6: I can't describe them, shall show them as familiar as
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: their names. The taller of the two at this time
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: wears his satin doublet white but crimson lined hose of
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: black satin, cloak of scarlet.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 10: Beck warback, warbick.
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  Speaker 3: Do you listen to this, sir, yes, yes, I lessen you.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing to be heard.
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  Speaker 6: The other's cloaks branched velvet, black velvet lined.
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  Speaker 10: His suit I have them already Somerton, Somerton Final revenge.
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  Speaker 10: All this comes, sir. The first work is to pursue
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 10: the murderers when we have removed these mangled bodies.
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  Speaker 3: Hence, sir, take that carcass there and give me this.
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  Speaker 3: I will not own her now, she's not of mine.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: Bob me off with a dumb show. No, I'll have life.
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  Speaker 3: This is my son too, and while there's life in him,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: tis half mine. Take you half that silence for it.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: When I speak, I look to be spoken to forgetful slut.
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  Speaker 10: Alas what grief may do. Now look sir, I'll take
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 10: this load of sorrow with me.
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  Speaker 1: I do, and I'll have this exit Oldiforny with Susan
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  Speaker 1: in his arms.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do, sir?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Very ill, sir, Yes, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: But tis well you can speak. Yet there's no music,
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  Speaker 3: but in sound sound it must be. I have not
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: wept these twenty years before, and that I guess was
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: ere that girl was born. Yet now methinks if I
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: but knew the way, my heart's so full I could
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: weep night and day.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: Exit with Frank, Scene four before Sir Arthur Clarington's house. Enter,
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  Speaker 1: Sir Arthur, Clarington, Warbeck and Somerton.
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  Speaker 2: Come, gentlemen, we must all help to grace the nimble
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  Speaker 2: footed youth of Edmonton that are so kind to call
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  Speaker 2: us up to day with an high Morris.
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  Speaker 4: I could wish it for the best if it were
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: the worst, Now absurdities in my opinion, ever, the best
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: dancer in a Morris, I.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: Could rather sleep than see him. Not well, sir, faith
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 5: not ever thus letten yet I know no cause for it?
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 7: Now?
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  Speaker 4: Am I beyond mine own condition? Highly disposed to mirth?
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: Well, you may have yet a Morris to help both
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  Speaker 2: to strike you in a dump and make him merry.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: And her saga with the Morris dancers, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Come, will you set yourselves in boris ray the four bells,
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  Speaker 2: second bell, tenor and great bell made Marion for the
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: same bell. But where's the weathercock? Now? The hobby horse
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: his banks?
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  Speaker 12: Come? Yet? What a spike tis?
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  Speaker 2: When set you forward, gentlemen, I.
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  Speaker 12: Bat for the hobby horse, sir. All our footmen are ready.
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  Speaker 5: Tis marvel. Your horse should be behind your foot, Yes.
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  Speaker 13: Sir, he goes further about. We can come in at
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 13: the wicket, but the broad gate must be opened for
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  Speaker 13: him and.
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  Speaker 1: Your cutting banks with the hobby horse, followed by the dog.
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  Speaker 8: Oh we stayed for you, sir, Only my horse wanted
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  Speaker 8: to shoe.
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  Speaker 12: Sir.
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  Speaker 8: We shall make you amends. Ere we part, I.
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  Speaker 2: Well said, make them drink.
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  Speaker 1: Ere they begin, and your servants with beer.
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  Speaker 12: A bowl.
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  Speaker 8: I prythee and a little for my horse. He'll mount
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  Speaker 8: the better, nay give me. I must drink to him.
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  Speaker 8: He'll not play gels drinks Here hobby.
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  Speaker 1: Holds the ball to the hobby horse.
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  Speaker 8: I pray you no, not drink. You see, gentlemen, we
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 8: can but bring our horse to the water. He may
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  Speaker 8: choose whether he'll drink or no drinks Again.
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  Speaker 5: A good moral made plain by history.
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  Speaker 12: Strike up, father Sorgat, strike up in when you will
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  Speaker 12: children cut?
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  Speaker 2: He mounts the hobby now in the name of the
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  Speaker 2: best foot forward.
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  Speaker 1: Endeavors to play. But the fiddle gives no sound.
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  Speaker 2: How now not a word in that guts, I think, children,
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  Speaker 2: My instrument has caught cold on the sudden.
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  Speaker 8: Aside my ningles knavery black Tom's doing.
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  Speaker 10: Why what would you have him?
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  Speaker 3: Do you hear?
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  Speaker 8: His fiddle is speechless.
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  Speaker 2: I lay mine ear to mine instrument. That my poor
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  Speaker 2: fiddle is bewitched. I played the flowers in May now
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  Speaker 2: as sweet as a violet, and now twill not go
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  Speaker 2: against the hair. You see, I can make no more
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: music than a beetle of a cow turd.
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  Speaker 8: Let me see, father sawgut takes the fiddle. Say what
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  Speaker 8: you had a brave hobby horse that you were beholding
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  Speaker 8: to all? Playing dance too? Ningle away with.
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  Speaker 1: It, gives it to the dog who plays the morris
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  Speaker 1: the dance, and to a constable and officers.
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  Speaker 15: Away with jolly tis too sad an hour, Sir, Arthur Clarington,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 15: your own assistance. In the King's name, I charge for
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 15: apprehension of these two murderers, Warbeck and Somerton, A flat murderers.
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  Speaker 4: This has awakened my melancholy and struck my mirth down
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: flat murderers.
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  Speaker 15: The accusations flat against you, gentlemen. Sir, you may be
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  Speaker 15: satisfied with this, shows his warrant. I hope you quietly
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 15: obey my power to will make your cause the ferror.
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  Speaker 8: Sir, there's my rival, taken up for hangman's meat. Tom
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 8: told me he was about a piece of villainy mates
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 8: and morris men. You see he is no longer piping,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 8: no longer dancing. This news of murderers, slain them. Morris,
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  Speaker 8: you that go the footway, fare ye well on for
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 8: a gallop?
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  Speaker 1: Come ningle caunters off with the hobby horse, and the
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  Speaker 1: dock strikes his fiddle, which sounds as before.
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  Speaker 2: I nay, and my fidd'll be come to himself again.
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  Speaker 2: I care not. I I think the devil has been
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: abroad amongst us today. I'll keep thee out of thy
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  Speaker 2: fit now if I.
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  Speaker 1: Can exit with the Morris dnswers.
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  Speaker 2: These things are full of horror, full of pity. But
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  Speaker 2: if this time be constant to the proof the guilt
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  Speaker 2: of both these gentlemen, I dare take on mine own
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  Speaker 2: danger yet house aware, sir, your power must be obeyed.
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  Speaker 4: Oh most willingly, sir. 'tis a most sweet affliction. I
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 4: could not meet a joy in the best shape, with
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 4: better will come. Fear not, sir, nor judge nor evidence
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 4: can bind him more. Who's freed by conscience?
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  Speaker 5: Mine stands so upright in the middle zone. It takes
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 5: no shadow to it. It goes alone.
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  Speaker 1: Exit and of Act three, Act four of The Witch
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  Speaker 1: of Edmonton by William Raley, Thomas Decker and John Ford.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Act the fourth scene one Edmonton,
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  Speaker 1: the street and her old banks, and several countrymen.
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  Speaker 7: My horse this morning runs most piteously of the Glanders,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 7: whose nose yesternight was as clean as any man's here
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 7: now coming from the barbers. And this I'll take my
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 7: death pont is longer. This Janish witch, mother Sawyer, I.
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  Speaker 24: Took my wife and a serving man in our town
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  Speaker 24: of Edmonton's freshening my bard together such corn as country
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 24: wedges carried to market, and examining my poul.
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  Speaker 12: Cat why she did so? She swore in her conscience
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 12: she was bewitched. A what witch have we about us?
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  Speaker 13: But Mother Sawyer read the town of a else all
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 13: our wives, or do nothing else but dance about other country?
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  Speaker 14: Maypoles are cattle fall, a wise ful, a daughter's full
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 14: and maid servants for and we ourselves shall not be
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  Speaker 14: able to stand if this beast be suffered to grees
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  Speaker 14: amongst us.
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  Speaker 1: Enter hemlock with thatch and a lighted link.
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  Speaker 10: Burn the witch, the witch, the witch, the witch. What
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 10: a handful of thatch plucked off a hovel of hers?
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 10: And they say winter's burning? If she be a witch,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 10: she'll come running in.
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  Speaker 7: Fire it, fire it. I'll stand between thee and home
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 7: for any danger.
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  Speaker 1: Hemlock sets fire to the thatch, and her mother sawyer running.
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  Speaker 16: Diseases, plagues, the curse of an old woman follow and
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 16: fall upon you, you.
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  Speaker 2: Whore.
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  Speaker 7: Must we fetch you with fire in your tail?
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  Speaker 12: This thatch is as good as a jury to prove
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 12: she is a witch?
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 16: Oh, sir, shall I be murdered by a bed of serpents?
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: Help help enter, Sir Arthur Clarington, and justice kill her?
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 15: How now forbear this violence?
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 16: A crew of villains, a not of bloody hangman set
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 16: to torment me.
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  Speaker 15: I know not why alas neighbor Banks, are you a
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 15: ringleader in mischief? Fie to abuse an aged woman?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 7: Woman? She's a hell cat, a witch? To prove her,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 7: one we no sooner set fire to the thatch of
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 7: her house, which she came running as if the devil
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 7: had sent her in a barrel of gunpowder, which trick
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 7: is surely proves her a wish as the pox in
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 7: a snuffly nose is a sign of man.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 15: Is hor master, come come firing her thatch ridiculous? Take care, sirs,
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  Speaker 15: what you do unless your proofs come better armed. Instead
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 15: of turning her into a witch, you'll prove yourself stark fools, fools, errant.
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  Speaker 7: Fools, pray master justice, what do you call them? Hear
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 7: me but one thing, this grumbling devil owes me. I
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 7: know no good will ever since I've fell out with her.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 16: And breakst my back with beating me.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, break it worse, wilt.
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  Speaker 15: Thou you must not threaten her? 'tis against law?
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 7: Go on so, sir, ever since having a dune cow
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  Speaker 7: tied up in my backside, let me go thither, or
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 7: but cance mine eye on her? And if I should
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 7: be hanged, I cannot choose, though it be ten times
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  Speaker 7: in an hour, but run to the cow and taking
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  Speaker 7: up her tail, kiss, saving your worship's reverence, my cow
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 7: beyind that the old town of Edmonton has been ready
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  Speaker 7: to be pissed themselves with laughing me to scorn. And
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 7: this is long of her, who the devil? Else? For
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 7: is any man such an ass to be such a
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 7: baby if he were not bewitched?
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  Speaker 2: Nay, she be a witch? And the harm she does
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: end in such sports, she may escape burning, Go go.
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  Speaker 15: Pray, vex her not. She is a subject, and you
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 15: must not be judges of the law to strike her
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  Speaker 15: as you please.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: To strike her.
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  Speaker 16: I no lips to kiss, but my cows, rots and
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 16: foul melodies, eat up thee and thine.
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  Speaker 1: Exit old banks and countrymen.
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  Speaker 15: Here's none now, mother, sawyer. But this gentleman, myself and you,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 15: let us do some mild questions. Have you mild answers?
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  Speaker 15: Tell us honestly and with a free confession. We'll do
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 15: our best to wean you from it? Are you a witch?
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  Speaker 22: Or no?
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  Speaker 16: I am none?
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  Speaker 15: Be not so furious.
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  Speaker 16: I am none. None, but base curves so buck at me.
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  Speaker 16: I am none, or would I were? If every poor
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 16: old woman be trod on thus by slaves, reviled, kicked,
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  Speaker 16: beaten as I am daily, she to be revenged had
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 16: need turn witch.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: And you, to be revenged, have sold your soul to
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: the devil.
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  Speaker 16: Keep thine own from him.
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  Speaker 15: You are too saucy, and too better saucy.
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  Speaker 16: By what commission can he send my soul on the
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 16: devil's errand more than I can his? Is he a
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 16: landlord of my soul to thrust it when he lists
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 16: out of door.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 15: Now whom you speak to a man?
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 16: Perhaps no man? Men in gay clothes whose backs are
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 16: laden with titles and with honors, are within far more
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 16: crooked than I am. And if I be a witch,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 16: more witch like, you're.
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  Speaker 2: A base hell hound. And now, sir, let me tell
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: you far and near she's bruted for a woman that
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: maintains a spirit that sucks her.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 16: I defy thee.
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  Speaker 2: Go go, I can, if need be, bring an hundred
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  Speaker 2: voices in here in Edmonton that shall loud proclaim thee
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: for a secret and pernicious witch.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 15: Ha ha, do you laugh?
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  Speaker 16: Why laugh you at my name? The brave name this
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 16: night gives.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 15: Me witch is the name of witch. So pleasing to
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 15: thine ear pray.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 16: Sir, give way, and let her tongue gallop on a
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 16: witch who is not hold not that universal name in scorn?
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 16: Then what are your painted things in Prince's courts? Upon
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 16: whose eyelids lust sets blowing fires to burn men's souls
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 16: in sensual hot desires, upon whose naked perhaps a leecher's
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 16: thought acts sin in fowl ass shapes than can be wrought,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 16: But those not as you do, no, but far worse.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 16: These by enchantments, can whole lordship's change to trunks of
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 16: rich attire, turn plows and teams to flanders, mayors and coaches,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 16: and huge trains of servitors to a French butterfly. Have
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 16: you not city witches who can turn their husband's weares,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 16: whole standing shops of wares to sumptuous tables, gardens of
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 16: stolen sin in one year wasting what scarce twenty win?
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 16: Are not these witches?
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 17: Yes?
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  Speaker 15: Yes, but the law has not an eye on these?
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 16: Why they're on me? Or any lean old bell dumb
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 16: reverence once had wont to wait on age. Now an
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 16: old woman, ill favored, grown with years, if she be poor,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 16: must be called bored or witch. Such so abused are
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 16: the course witches. The other are the fine spun for
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 16: the devil's own wearing.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 11: And so is thine she on whose.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 16: Tongue are word sits to blow a man out of
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 16: himself from his soft pillow, to lean his head on
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 16: rocks and fighting waves, is not that scold a witch?
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 16: The man of law whose honeyed hopes the credulous client
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 16: draw as bees by tinkling basins to swarm to him
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 16: from his own hive to work the wax in his
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 16: He is no witch, not he.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: But these men witches are not in trading with Hell's
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: merchandise like such as you are. That for a word
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: a look, denial of a call of fire, kill men,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: children and cattle, Tell.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 16: Them, sir, that do so? Am I accused for such
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 16: a one?
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, twill be sworn.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 16: Dare any swear I ever tempted maiden with golden hooks
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 16: flung at her chastity to come and lose her honor,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 16: and being lost to pay not a deniere for it.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 16: Some slaves have done it. Men witches can without the
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 16: fangs of law, drawing once one drop of blood put
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 16: counterfeit pieces away for true gold.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: By one seeing she speaks, I know now she's a witch,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: and dear no longer hold confidence with the fury.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 15: Let's then away, old woman, men thy life, get home
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 15: and pray.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 16: Exume Sir Arthur injustice for his confusion. Enter the dog,
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 16: my dear tomboy, welcome. I am torn in pieces by
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 16: a pack of curs clapped all upon me, and for
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 16: want of thee comfort me, thou shalt have the teat
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 16: Anon bow wow, I'll have it now. I am dried
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 16: up with cursing and with madness, and have yet no
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 16: blood to moisten. These sweet lips of thine stand on
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 16: thy hind legs up, kiss me, my tommy, and rub
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 16: away some wrinkles on my brow by making my old
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 16: ribs to shrug for joy of thy fine tricks. What
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 16: hast thou done? Let's tickle? Hast thou struck the horse
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 16: lame as I bid thee.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 11: Yes and nipped the sucking child.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 16: Oh my dear, my little pearl. No lady loves her hound,
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 16: monkey or paraquet as I do thee.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 11: The maid has been churning butter nine hours, but it
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 11: shall not come.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 16: Let him eat cheese and choke.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 11: I had rare sport among the clowns in the Morris.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 16: I could dance out of my skin to hear thee.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 16: But my curl pate that jade, that foul tongued hoar
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 16: Nan Ratcliffe, who for a little soap licked by my sow,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 16: struck and almost had lamed it? Did I not charge
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 16: thee to pinch that queen to the heart?
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 6: Bow wow, wow?
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 25: Look here else enter Anne Ratcliffe mad see see see
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 25: the man if the moon has built a new windmill,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 25: and what running there is from all quarters of the
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 25: city to learn the art of grinding.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 16: Ho ho ho, I thank thee, my sweet mongrel.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 25: Hoider a box of the devil's false hopper. All the
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 25: golden meal runs in to the rich knaves purses and
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 25: the poor have nothing but bran hey, dairy down or
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 25: not you, mother Sawyer.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 16: No I am a lawyer.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 22: Art thou i prithee.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 25: Let me scratch thy face, for thy pen has flayed
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 25: off a great many men's skins. You'll have brave doings
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 25: on the vacation, for knaves and fools are at variance
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 25: in every village. I'll soe mother Sawyer, and her own
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 25: sow shall give in evidence against her.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: Touch her to the dark who rabs against her.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 25: Oh, my ribs are made of a pained hose, and
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 25: they break. There's a Lancashire hornpipe in my throat. Hark
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 25: how it tickles with doodle doodle, doodle doodle. Welcome, sergeants, welcome,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 25: devil hands hands, hold hands and dance around around.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: Around, dancing, re enter old banks with cuddy ratcliffe and countrymen.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 9: She's here alas my poor wife is here.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 7: Catch her fast and have her into some close chamber.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 7: Do for she's as many wives are start mad.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 9: The witch, mother, the witch, the devil, Oh, my dear wife,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 9: help sirs.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: Anna's carried off by Ratcliffe and countrymen.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 7: You see your work, mother, bumby my work?
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 16: Should she and all you hear unmad? Is the work mine?
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 4: No?
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 8: On my conscience, she would not hurt a devil of
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 8: two years old.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: Re enter Ratcliffe and countrymen.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 8: How now what's become of her?
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 6: Nothing?
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 9: She's become nothing but the miserable trunk of a wretched woman.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 9: We were in her hands, as reads an amated tempest,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 9: in spite of our strengths. Away she break, and nothing
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 9: in her mouth being heard but the devil, the witch,
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 9: the witch, the devil. She beat out her own brains
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 9: and so died.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 8: It's any man's case. Be he never so wise to
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 8: die when his brains go a wall.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 7: Gathering masters be ruled by me. Let's all to Aju justice,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 7: hag thou hast done this, and thou she'll answer it.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 16: Banks, I defy thee.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 7: Get a warrant first to examine her, Then shipper to Newgate.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 7: Here's enough if all the other villainies were pardoned to
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 7: Burner for a witch. You have a spirit, they say,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 7: comes to you in the likeness of a dog. We
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 7: shall see your cur at one time or another. If
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 7: we do, unless it be the devil himself, he shall
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 7: go out into the jail in one chain, and thou
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 7: in another.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 16: Be hanged thou in a third, and do thy worst.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 8: How father, you send the poor dumb thing howl into
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 8: the jail? He that makes him? How makes me raw?
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 20: Why?
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 7: Foolish boy? Dost thou know him?
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 8: No matter if I do or not? He's bailable, I
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 8: am sure by law. But if the dog's words shall
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 8: not be taken.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 7: Mine shall thou bail for a dog?
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 8: Yes, or a bitch? Either being my friend? Oh, lie
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 8: by the heels myself before paperson shall is dog? Days
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 8: are not come yet?
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 7: I hope what marrow dog is it? Did the ever
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 7: see him?
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 8: See him? Yes? And giving him a bone to nor
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 8: twenty times? The dog is no foisting hound that fills
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 8: his belly full of base, wag his tail. Neither is
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 8: he a citizen's water spaniel, enticing his master to go
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 8: a ducking twice or thrice a week, whilst his wife
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 8: makes ducks and drakes at home. This is no Paris
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 8: garden band dog neither that keeps a bow wow wowing
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 8: to have butchers bring their curves thither, and when all
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 8: comes to all, they run away like sheep. Neither is
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 8: this a black dog of Newgate.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 7: No Goodman's son full, but the dog of Hellgate.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 8: I say, Goodman, father, fall it's a lie. He's direct,
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 8: a gross lie, as big as my self. The devil
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 8: in Saint Dunstan's will as soon drink with this poor
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 8: cur as with any temple bar laundress that washes and
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 8: rings lawyers, bow wow.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, the dogs here, the dog here?
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 7: It was the voice of a dog, the voice of
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 7: a dog.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 8: If that voice were a dogs, what voice had my mother?
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 8: So am I a dog? Bow wow? Wow? It was
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 8: all that, But so father, to make cox coms of
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 8: these clowns.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 7: However, will be Coxclumb no longer away? Therefore to the
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 7: justice for a warrant. And then, Gammer Gerton, have it
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 7: your needle of witchcraft.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 16: And prick thine own eyes out go peevish fools.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: Exceent Old Banks, Ratcliffe and countrymen Ningle you have liked
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: to have spoiled all with your bowings.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 8: I was glad to have put them off with one
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 8: of my dog tricks. On a sudden, I am bewitched.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 8: It'll cost me nut to love thee. A pox that
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 8: Morris makes me spit in thy mouth. I dare not stay. Farewell, Ningle,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 8: you wore sons dog's nose. Farewell witch exit bow wow.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: Wow wow, mind him not.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 16: He is not worth thy worrying. Run at a fairer game,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 16: that foul mouthed knight, scurvy, Sir Arthur, fly at him,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 16: my Tommy, and pluck out throat.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 11: No, there's a dog already biting conscience.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 16: That's a sure bloodhound. Come, let's home and play our
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 16: black work. Ended, we'll make holiday.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: Except Scene two. A bedroom in Carter's house, A bed
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: thrust forth with Frank and Slumper.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 18: And you're Catherine brother brother, so sound asleep?
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: That's well waking.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 6: No, not I sister. He that's wounded here as I am.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 6: All My other hurts are bitings of a poor flea.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 6: But he that here once bleeds is aimed incurably, my.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 18: Good sweet brother. For now my sister must grow up
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 18: in you, though her lost strikes you through. And that
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 18: I feel the blow is deep. I pray THEE be
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 18: not cruel to kill me too by seeing you cast
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 18: away in your own helpless sorrow. Good love, Sit up,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 18: and if you can give physic to yourself, I shall
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 18: be well.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 6: Ah, I'll do my best.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 12: Thank you?
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 6: What do you look about for nothing? Nothing? But I
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 6: was thinking, sister, dear heart, what who but a fool
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 6: would thus be bound to a bed having this room
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 6: to walk in?
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 18: Why do you talk?
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 4: So?
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 18: Would you were fus asleep?
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 17: No?
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 6: No, I'm not idle. But here's my meaning, being robbed
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 6: as I am. Why should my soul, which married was
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 6: to hers, live in divorce and not fly after her?
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 6: Why should I not walk hand in hand with death
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 6: to find my love.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 10: Out there were?
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 18: Well, indeed your time being come. When death is sent
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 18: to call you, no doubt you shall meet her?
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 6: Why should not I go without calling?
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 18: Yes, brother, so you might were there no place to
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 18: go when you're gone?
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 6: But only this truth, sister, ear thousayest true? For when
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 6: a man has been an hundred years hard traveling o'er
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 6: the tottering bridge of age, he's not the thousand part
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 6: upon his way. All life is but a wandering to
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 6: find home. When we're gone, We're there happy. Were man
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 6: could hear his voyage end? He should not then answer
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 6: how well or ill he steer'd his soul by heavens
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 6: or by Hell's compass, how he put in losing blessed
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 6: goodness is sure at such a sin, nor how life's
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 6: deer provision he has spent, nor how far he, in
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 6: his navigation went beyond commission. This were a fine reign
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 6: to do ill and not hear of it again? Yet
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 6: then were man more wretched than a beast? For sister
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 6: our dead? Pay is sure the best.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 18: Tis sew the best or worst? And I wish Heaven
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 18: to pay, And so I know it will. That traitor,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 18: that devil Somerton, who stood in mine eye once as
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 18: an angel home to his deservings, what a villain but
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 18: himself was loving me with warback soul, would pawn his
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 18: own to hell to be revenged on My poor sister.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 6: Slaves, A pair of mercyless slaves. Speak no more of them. Oh,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 6: I think this talking hat you does mean no good.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 6: I'm sure I'd pay for it everywhere I have done.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 18: Then eat if you cannot sleep? Do you have these
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 18: two days? Not tasted any food? Jane, is it ready?
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 6: What's ready? What's ready?
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 18: I have made ready a roasted chicken for you.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: Enter, made with chicken sweet?
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 6: Would thou eat ah pretty stomach on a sudden? Yes,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 6: there's one in the house. Can play upon a lute,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 6: good girl. Let's hear him too, you shall.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: Dear brother, exit maide.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 18: Would I were a musician, you should hear how I would.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: Feast your ear lute plays within?
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 18: Stay, mend your pillow and race you higher?
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 6: I'm up too high? Am I not? Sister?
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 22: No?
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: No?
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 18: Tis well? Fall two? Fall two? A knife? Here's never
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 18: a knife, brother, I'll look out yours.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: Takes up his vest. Enter the dog, shrugging as it were,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: for joy and dances.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 6: Sister, Oh, sister, a mill upon a sudden and can
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 6: eat nothing.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 18: In very indeed you shall. The want of food makes
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 18: you so faint.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: Hah, seize the bloody knife.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 18: Here's none in your pocket. I'll go fetch a knife.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 6: Exit hastily, will you tis well? All's well.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: Frank searches first one pocket, then the other, finds the knife,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: then lies down. The dog runs off. The spirit of
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: Susan comes to the bedside. Frank stares at it, and
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: then turns to the other side. But the spirit is
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: there too. Meanwhile, enter Winifred as a page and stands
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: sadly at the bed's foot. Frank of fright, it sits up,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: the spirit vanishes.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 19: What art thou a last creature?
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 6: So am I too, when ah my sheep page?
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 19: For your sake, I put on a shape that's false.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 19: Yet do I wear a heart true to you as
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 19: your own?
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 6: Would mine and vine were fellows in one house. Kneel,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 6: buy me here on this side. Now, how darest thou
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 6: come to mock me on both sides of my bed? When,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 6: but just now outface me, stare upon me with strange postures,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 6: turn my soul wild by a face in which were
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 6: drawn a thousand ghosts leapt newly from their graves to
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 6: pluck me into a winding sheet.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 19: Believe it, I came no nearer to you than yon
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 19: place at your bed's feet, and of the house had leave,
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 19: calling myself your horse boy in to come and visit
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 19: my sick master.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 6: And twas my fancy some windmill in my brains for
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 6: want of sleep?
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 19: Would I might never sleep so you could rest? But
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 19: you have plucked a thunder on your head, whose noise
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 19: cannot cease suddenly? Why should you dance at the wedding
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 19: of a second wife when scarce the music which you
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 19: heard at mine had tain a farewell of you. Oh
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 19: this was ill. And they who thus can give both
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 19: hands away in the end shall want their best.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 6: Limbs winifred the chamber doors fast, yes, sit thee then down,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 6: And when thus heard me speak, melt into tears. Yet
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 6: I to save those eyes of thine from weeping, being
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 6: to write a story of us two instead of ink,
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 6: dipped my sad pen in blood. When of thee I
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 6: took leave. I went abroad only for pillage as a
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 6: free booter. What gold so were I got to make
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 6: it thine to please a father I have heaven displeased.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 6: Striving to cast two wedding rings in one through my
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 6: bad workmanship, I now have none. I have lost her
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 6: and thee.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 19: I know she's dead, but you have me still nay
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 19: her this hand.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 6: Murdered, and so I lose thee too. Oh me, be quiet,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 6: for thou my evidence, art, jury and judge, Sit quiet,
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 6: and I'll tell all.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: While they are conversing in a low tone. Enter at
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: one door Carter and Catherine, and at the other the
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: dog pawing softly at Frank.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 18: I have run maddening up and down to find you
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 18: been laden with the heaviest news that ever poor daughter carried.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 3: Why is the boy dead?
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 18: Dead, sir, oh father, we are costened. You are told
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 18: the murderous things in prison. And he laughs, Here this
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 18: villain killed my sister. See else.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: See takes up his vest and shows the knife to
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: her father, who secures it, a.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 18: Bloody knife in his pocket.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: Bless me patience seeing them the knife, the knife, the knife,
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 3: what knife?
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: E said the dog?
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 6: And to cut my chicken up? My chicken. Be you,
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 6: my carver father, that I will.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 18: How the devil steals our brows after doing ill.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 6: My stomach and my sight had taken from me. All
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 6: is not well within me.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 3: I believe thee boy, I that have seen so many
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 3: moons clap their horns on other men's foreheads to strike
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 3: them sick. Yet mind escape and be well. I that
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 3: never cast away a fee upon Jurnal's but Emma's sound
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  Speaker 3: is an honest man's conscience. When he's dying, I should
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  Speaker 3: cry out, as thou dost al is not well within me?
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  Speaker 3: Felt I but the bag of thy impostumes, ah, poor villain, ah,
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  Speaker 3: my wounded rascal. All my grief is I have now
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  Speaker 3: a small hope of thee.
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  Speaker 6: Do the surgeon say my wounds a dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Then yes, yes, and there's no way with THEE.
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  Speaker 6: But one, what are you here to open them?
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  Speaker 3: I'll go to fetch him. I'll make a holiday to
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  Speaker 3: see thee as I wish.
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  Speaker 6: A wondrous kind.
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  Speaker 19: Old man aside to Frank yours sends the black or
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  Speaker 19: so to abuse his goodness?
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  Speaker 1: Allowed master, how.
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  Speaker 6: Do you pretty well? Now? Boy, I have such odd
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  Speaker 6: qualms come across my stomach. I'll fall to boy, cut
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  Speaker 6: me aside?
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  Speaker 19: You have cut me? I'm sure a leg or wings?
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  Speaker 6: Sir, No, no, no, a wing?
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  Speaker 1: Aside?
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  Speaker 6: Would I had wings? But to soar up yond tower?
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  Speaker 6: But here is a clog that hinders me.
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  Speaker 1: Re enter carter with servants burying the body of Susan
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  Speaker 1: in a coffin.
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  Speaker 6: What's this that?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Now I see her tis a young wench, my daughter, Sirrah,
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  Speaker 3: sick to the death and hearing THEE to be an
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  Speaker 3: excellent rascal for letting blood. She looks out at a
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  Speaker 3: casement and cries help. Help stay that man him I
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  Speaker 3: must have or none.
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  Speaker 6: For pity's sake, remove her. See she stares with one
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  Speaker 6: broad open eye still in my face.
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  Speaker 3: Thou puttest both hers out like a villain, as thou art.
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  Speaker 3: Yet see she is willing to lend thee one again
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  Speaker 3: to find out the murderer. And that's thyself, O man,
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  Speaker 3: thou liest, So shalt thou in the jail, run for officers, O.
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  Speaker 18: Thou, masterless slave. She was though yet above ground in
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 18: her grave to me, but thou hast torn it up again.
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  Speaker 18: Mine eyes too much drowned, now must feel more rain.
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  Speaker 1: Fetch officers, exit Catherine and servants with the body of
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  Speaker 1: Susan for whom.
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  Speaker 3: For thee Sir Rah, sir rah. Some knives have foolish
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  Speaker 3: poises upon them, but thine has a villainous one.
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  Speaker 1: Look showing the bloody knife.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it is enameled with the heart blood of thy
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  Speaker 3: hated wife, my beloved daughter. What sayest thou to this evidence?
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  Speaker 3: Ist not sharp? Doest not strike home? Thou canst not
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  Speaker 3: answer honestly and without a trembling heart to this one point,
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  Speaker 3: this terrible, bloody point.
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  Speaker 19: I beseech you, sir, strike him. No more you see
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  Speaker 19: he's dead already.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sir, you held his horses. You are as errant
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  Speaker 3: a rogue as he up.
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  Speaker 6: Go you too, as you're a man. Throw not upon
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  Speaker 6: that woman your loads of tyranny, for she is innocent.
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  Speaker 3: Haw how a woman dis grown to a fashion for
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 3: woman in all countries to wear breeches.
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  Speaker 19: I'm not, as my disguise speaks me, sir, his page,
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  Speaker 19: but his first only wife, his lawful wife.
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  Speaker 3: How how more fire and a bedstraw.
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  Speaker 19: The wrongs which singly fell upon your daughter on me
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  Speaker 19: or multiplied? She lost a life, but I an husband
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  Speaker 19: and myself must lose. If you call him to a
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  Speaker 19: bar for what he has done, he has done it,
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  Speaker 19: then yes, tis confessed to me.
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  Speaker 6: Doest betray me?
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  Speaker 19: Oh pardon me, dear heart. I'm mad to lose thee
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  Speaker 19: and know not what I speak. But if thou didst
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 19: I must arraign this father for two sins, adultery and murder.
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  Speaker 3: Re enter Catherine, sir, there come arraign me for what
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  Speaker 3: thou wilt. All Middlesex knows me better for an honest
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 3: man than the middle of a market place knows THEE
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 3: for an honest woman. Rye surah, and don your tacklings,
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 3: rig yourself for the gallows, or I'll carry thee thither
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  Speaker 3: on my back. Your trowell shall to the jail go
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  Speaker 3: with you. There be as fine newgate bird words as
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 3: she that can draw him in parks are wounds.
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  Speaker 6: I have served thee, and my wages now are paid.
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  Speaker 6: Yet my worse punishment shall I hope be stayed.
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  Speaker 1: Exit and of Act four, Act five of The Witch
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  Speaker 1: of Edmonton by William Rowley, Thomas Decker, and John Ford.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Act the fifth seene one the
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  Speaker 1: Witch's cottage and her mother Sawyer.
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  Speaker 16: Still wronged by every slave, and not a dog bark
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  Speaker 16: in his dame's defense. I am called witch, yet and
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  Speaker 16: myself bewitched from doing harm? Have I given up myself
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  Speaker 16: to thy black lust? Thus to be scorned not see
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  Speaker 16: me in three days? I'm lost without my Tomolin Prithee
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  Speaker 16: come revenge to me is sweeter far than life. Thou
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  Speaker 16: art my raven, on whose cool black wings revenge comes
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  Speaker 16: flying to me? O, my best love I am on fire,
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  Speaker 16: even in the midst of ice, raking my blood up
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  Speaker 16: till my shrunk knees feel thy curled head leaning on them. Come, then,
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  Speaker 16: my darling, if in the air thou horverest fall upon
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  Speaker 16: me in some dark cloud, and as I oft have
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  Speaker 16: seen dragons and serpents in the elements, appear thou now
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  Speaker 16: So to me, art thou in the sea, muster up
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  Speaker 16: all the monsters from the deep, and be the ugliest
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  Speaker 16: of them, so that my bolts show but his swart
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  Speaker 16: cheek to me, let earth cleave and break from hell.
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  Speaker 7: I care not.
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  Speaker 16: Could I run like a swift powder mine beneath the
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  Speaker 16: world up. I would blow it all to find out THEE,
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  Speaker 16: though I lay ruined in it not yet come. I
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  Speaker 16: must then fall to my old prayer sank to be
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  Speaker 16: said to a nomenum not yet come, the worrying of wolves,
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  Speaker 16: biting of mad dogs, the manges and thee enter.
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  Speaker 1: The dog which is now white.
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  Speaker 11: How now whom art thou cursing thee?
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  Speaker 16: Huh, No, it is my black cur I am cursing
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  Speaker 16: for not attending on me. I am that cur thou liest.
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  Speaker 16: Hence come not nigh me, bar war, Why dost thou
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  Speaker 16: thus appear to me in white? As if thou wert
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  Speaker 16: the ghost of my dear love.
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  Speaker 11: I am dogged and list not to tell thee, yet
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  Speaker 11: to torment thee. My whiteness puts THEE in mind of
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 11: thy winding sheet?
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  Speaker 16: Am I near death?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: If the dog of hell be near thee?
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  Speaker 11: When the devil comes to thee as a lamb, have
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  Speaker 11: at thy throat off cur he has the back of
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  Speaker 11: a sheep, but the belly of an otter devours by
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  Speaker 11: sea and land. Why am I in white? Didst thou
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  Speaker 11: not pray to me?
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  Speaker 16: Yes, thou dissembling hellhound? Why now in white, more than
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 16: at other times.
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  Speaker 11: Be blasted with the news. Whiteness is day's footboy, a
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  Speaker 11: forerunner to light, which shows thy old, reveled face. Villainies
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 11: are stripped naked. The witch must be beaten out of
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  Speaker 11: her cockpit?
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  Speaker 6: Must she?
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  Speaker 16: She shall not thou'rt a lying spirit? Why to mine
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  Speaker 16: eyes art thou a flag of truce? I am at
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 16: peace with none. Tis the black color or none which
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  Speaker 16: I fight under? I do not like thy puritan paleness.
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  Speaker 16: Glowing furnaces are far more hot than they which flame
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  Speaker 16: outright If thou, my old dog, art, go go and
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  Speaker 16: bite such as I shall sit thee on.
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  Speaker 20: I will not.
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  Speaker 16: I'll sell myself to twenty thousand fiends to have THEE
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  Speaker 16: torn in pieces.
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  Speaker 11: Then thou canst not Thou art so ripe to fall
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  Speaker 11: into hell that no more of my kennel will so
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  Speaker 11: much as bark at him that hangs thee.
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  Speaker 16: I shall run mad do so.
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  Speaker 11: Thy time is come to curse and rave and die.
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  Speaker 11: The glass of thy sins is full, and it must
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  Speaker 11: run out at gallows.
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  Speaker 16: It cannot ugly ocur. I'll confess nothing, and not confessing
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  Speaker 16: who dare come and swear I have bewitched them. I'll
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  Speaker 16: not confess one mouthful.
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  Speaker 11: Choose and be hanged or burned.
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  Speaker 16: Spite of the devil and thee. I'll muzzle up my
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  Speaker 16: tongue from telling tales.
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  Speaker 11: Spite of THEE and the devil. Thou'lt be dmned. Yes,
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  Speaker 11: When and here the executioner catch thee full in his claws,
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  Speaker 11: thou'lt confess.
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  Speaker 16: All out, dog, out which.
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  Speaker 11: Thy trial is at hand, our prey being had, the
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  Speaker 11: devil does laughing.
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  Speaker 1: Stan runs aside, and her old banks Ratcliffe and countrymen.
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  Speaker 7: She's here attacher, which you must go with us.
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  Speaker 16: They sees her whither to hell.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no, old crone, your mitemus shall be made thither.
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  Speaker 7: But your own jailers shall receive you away with her.
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  Speaker 16: My Tommy, my sweet tomboy, or their dog. Dost thou
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  Speaker 16: now fly to thy kennel and forsake me plagues and consumptions.
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  Speaker 1: She is carried off.
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  Speaker 11: Ha ha, Let not the world witches or devil condemn
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 11: They follow us, and then we follow them and.
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  Speaker 1: Are cuddy backs.
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  Speaker 8: I would fain meet with my Ningle once more. He
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 8: has had a claw amongst them. My rival that loved
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 8: my wench, is like to be hanged like an innocent,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 8: a kind cur where he takes, but where he takes
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  Speaker 8: not a dogged rascal. I know the villain loves me.
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  Speaker 1: The dog boks No are they are there seeing the dog?
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  Speaker 8: That's Tom's voice? But tis not he? This is a
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 8: dog of another hair, this buck, and not speak to me,
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  Speaker 8: not Tom. Then there's as much difference TwixT Tom and
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 8: this as TwixT white and black.
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  Speaker 11: Hast thou forgot me?
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  Speaker 8: That's Tom again? Prythee Ningle speak? Is thy name? Tom?
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  Speaker 11: Whilst I served my old Dame Sawyer. Twas I'm gone
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  Speaker 11: from her.
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  Speaker 8: Now gone away with the witch. Then too, she'll never
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 8: thrive if thou leavest her. She knows no more how
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  Speaker 8: to kill a cow, or a horse or a sow
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  Speaker 8: without thee than she does to kill a goose.
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 11: No, she has done killing now, but must be killed
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  Speaker 11: for what she has done. She's shortly to be hanged,
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 11: is she in my conscience?
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  Speaker 8: If she be, tis thou hast brought her to the gallows, tom.
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  Speaker 11: Right, I served her to that purpose twas part of
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 11: my wages.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 8: This is no honest servant's part. By your leave, tom this,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 8: remember I pray you Between you and I I entertained
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  Speaker 8: you ever as a dog, not.
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  Speaker 11: As a devil, true, and so I use thee doggedly,
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  Speaker 11: not devilishly. I have deluded thee for sport to laugh
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  Speaker 11: at the wench Thou seekst after thou never spakest with
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 11: put a spirit in her form, habit and likeness.
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  Speaker 8: I do not then wonder at the change of your
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 8: garments if you can enter into shapes of women.
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  Speaker 11: Too, any shape to blind such silly eyes as thine,
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  Speaker 11: but chiefly those coarse creatures dog or cat hair, ferret, frog,
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 11: toad laus, or flee any poor vermin.
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  Speaker 8: It seems you devils have poor, thin souls that you
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  Speaker 8: can bestow yourselves in such small bodies. But pray you Tom,
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 8: one question of party, I think I shall never.
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  Speaker 15: See you more.
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  Speaker 8: Where do you borrow those bodies that are none of
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 8: your own? A garment shape you may high at brokers?
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  Speaker 11: Why wouldst thou know that fool it avails thee?
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  Speaker 8: Not only for my mind's sake, Tom, and to tell
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  Speaker 8: some of my friends.
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  Speaker 11: I'll thus much tell THEE Thou never art so distant
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  Speaker 11: from an evil spirit, but that thy oaths, curses and
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 11: blasphemies pull him to thine elbow. Thou never tell'st a lie,
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  Speaker 11: but that a devil is within hearing it. Thy evil
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 11: purposes are ever haunted. But when they come to act
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  Speaker 11: as thy tongue slandering, bearing false witness, thy hand stabbing, stealing, cousining, cheating,
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  Speaker 11: he's then within thee. Thou playest he bets upon thy art.
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  Speaker 11: Although thou lose, yet he will gain by thee.
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  Speaker 8: By then he comes in the shape of a rook, the.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 11: Old cadaver of some self strangled wretch. We sometimes borrow
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  Speaker 11: and appear human the carcass of some disease slain strumpet
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 11: we varnish fresh and wear as her first beauty didst
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  Speaker 11: never hear? If not it has been done, and hot,
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  Speaker 11: luxurious lecture in his twines. When he has thought to
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  Speaker 11: clip his dalliance, there has provided been for his embrace,
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  Speaker 11: a fine, hot, flaming devil in her place.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I am partly a witness to that. Well, I
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  Speaker 8: never could embrace her. I thank THEE for that. Tom.
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  Speaker 8: Well again, I think the Tom for all this counsel
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 8: without a fee, too. There's a few lawyers of thy mind. Now, certainly, Tom,
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  Speaker 8: I begin to pity THEE.
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  Speaker 6: Pity me for what were it.
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  Speaker 8: Not possible for THEE to become an honest dog? Yet
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  Speaker 8: tis a base life that you need, Tom, to serve witches,
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  Speaker 8: to kill innocent children, to kill harmless cattle, to destroy
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  Speaker 8: cord and fruit, etc. Which were better yet to be
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 8: a butcher and kill for yourself.
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  Speaker 11: Why these are all my delights, my pleasures.
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  Speaker 7: For or Tom.
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  Speaker 8: If you could give your mind to ducking, I know
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  Speaker 8: you can swim, fetch and carry. Some shopkeeper in London
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 8: would take great delight in you be a tender master
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 8: over you. Or if you have a mind to the game,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 8: either at bull or bear, I think I can prefer
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 8: you to mold cut purse.
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  Speaker 11: I should kill all the game, balls, bears, dogs, and
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  Speaker 11: all not a cub to be left.
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  Speaker 8: You could do, Tom, but you must play fair. You
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 8: could be staved off else. Or if your stomach did better,
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 8: like to serve in some nobleman's knights or gentleman's kitchen.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 8: If you could brook the wheel and turn the spit,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 8: your labor could not be much when they have roast
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 8: meat that's once or twice in a week at most.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 27: He might lick your own toes very well. Or if
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 27: you could translate yourself into a lady's arming puppy. There
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 27: you might lick sweet lips and do many pretty officers.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 27: But to creep under an old witch's coats and suck
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 27: like a great puppy fire upon it. I've heard beastly things.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 8: Of you, Tom.
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  Speaker 11: The worst thou heardst of me, the better tis Shall
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 11: I serve thee fall at the self same rate.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 8: No, I'll see the hand thou shalt be damned first.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 8: I know thy qualities too well. I'll give no suck
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 8: to such whelps. Therefore, henceforth I defy THEE out and
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 8: a vaunt.
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  Speaker 11: Nor will I serve for such a silly soul. I
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 11: am for greatness, now corrupted greatness. There I'll shug in
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 11: and get a noble countenance. Serve some briary and footcloth
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 11: strider that has an hundred hands to catch at bribes,
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 11: but not a fingers nail of charity such like the
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 11: dragon's tail, shall put down hundreds to drop and sink
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 11: with him. I'll stretch myself and draw this bulk small
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 11: as a silver wire enter at the least poor tobacco
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 11: fume can make a breach. For hence silly for I
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 11: scorn to prey on such an atom soul.
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  Speaker 8: Come out, Come out, you curer. I will beat THEE
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  Speaker 8: out of the bounds of Edmonton, And tomorrow we go
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 8: in procession, and after thou shalt never come in again.
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 8: If thou goest to London, I'll make thee go about
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 8: by Tyburn, stealing in by thieving lane. If they'll canst
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 8: rub thy shoulder against a lawyer's gown as thou passest
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 8: by Westminster Hall, do if not to the stairs amongst
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 8: the banddogs, take water and the devil go with thee.
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  Speaker 1: Exit, followed by the dog barking.
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  Speaker 23: Scene.
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  Speaker 1: Two London, the neighborhood of Taper, Enter Justice, Sir Arthur, Somerton, Warbeck,
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  Speaker 1: Carter and Catherine.
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  Speaker 15: Sir Arthur. Though the bench hath mildly censored your errors,
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 15: yet you have indeed been the instrument that wrought all
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 15: their misfortunes. I would wish you paid down your fine
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 15: speedily and willingly.
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 3: I'll need no urging to it if you should, twere
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 3: a shame to you, For if I should speak my conscience,
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  Speaker 3: you are worthier to be hanged of the two, all
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 3: things considered, And now make what you can of it.
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  Speaker 3: But I am glad these gentlemen are freed.
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  Speaker 5: We knew innocence and therefore feared it not.
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  Speaker 18: But I am glad that I have you safe.
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  Speaker 15: A noise within how now what noise is?
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  Speaker 3: That young Frank is going the wrong way? Alas poor youth.
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  Speaker 3: Now I begin to pity him.
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  Speaker 1: Enter old Thorny and winifreit weeping.
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  Speaker 10: Here letters s wait him to press nearer the place
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  Speaker 10: of his sad death. Some apprehensions may tempt our grief
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  Speaker 10: too much at height.
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  Speaker 19: Already daughter be comforted, Comfort and die are too far
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  Speaker 19: separated to be joined. But in eternity I share too
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  Speaker 19: much of him that's going thither.
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  Speaker 3: Poor woman, twas not thy fault. I grieve to see
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  Speaker 3: thee weep for him that hath my pity too.
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  Speaker 19: My fault was lost, my punishment was shame. Yet I
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  Speaker 19: am happy that my soul is free, both from consent,
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  Speaker 19: for knowledge and intent of any murder, but of mine
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  Speaker 19: own honor restored again by a fair satisfaction, and since
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  Speaker 19: not to be wounded.
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  Speaker 10: Daughter grieved not for what necessity forceth, rather resolved to
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  Speaker 10: conquer it with patience, alas she finds.
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  Speaker 19: My griefs are strong upon me. My weakness scarce can
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  Speaker 19: bear them within. Away with her hang her witch enter.
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  Speaker 1: To execution Mother Sawyer, officers with Halbert's, followed by a
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  Speaker 1: crowd of country people.
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  Speaker 3: The witch, that instrument of mischief? Did not you witch
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  Speaker 3: that devil into my son in law when he killed
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  Speaker 3: my poor daughter? Do you hear, Mother Sawyer?
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  Speaker 16: What would you have Cannot a poor old woman have
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  Speaker 16: your leave to die without vexation?
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  Speaker 3: Did you not be witch Frank to kill his wife?
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  Speaker 3: He could never have done it without the devil who.
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  Speaker 16: Doubts it, But is every devil mine? Would I had
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  Speaker 16: one now whom I might command to tear you all
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  Speaker 16: in pieces? Tom would have done it before he left me.
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  Speaker 3: Thou didst be witch and Radcliffe to kill herself?
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  Speaker 16: Tell thou liast I never did her hurt? Would you
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  Speaker 16: were all as near your ends as I am? That
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  Speaker 16: gave evidence against me for it?
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  Speaker 12: Oh be swore Master Carter. She'd bewitch Gamma wish bowl
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  Speaker 12: sail to cast a pigs a day before she would
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  Speaker 12: have farrowed. Yet they were sent up to London and
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  Speaker 12: sold for as good as Westminster. Dog pir both follow
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  Speaker 12: you fair as ever great bellied a your wife long.
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  Speaker 16: For these dogs will mad me? I was well resolved
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  Speaker 16: to die in my repentance, though tis true, I would
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  Speaker 16: live longer if I might. Yet, since I cannot pray,
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  Speaker 16: torment me not. My conscience is settled as it shall be.
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  Speaker 16: All take heed how they believe the devil at last
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  Speaker 16: he'll cheat you.
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  Speaker 3: Thou the best confess all truly?
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  Speaker 16: Yet again, have I scarce breath enough to say my prayers?
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  Speaker 16: And would you force me to spend that in balling
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  Speaker 16: bear witness? I repent all former evil there is no
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  Speaker 16: damned conjurer like the devil away with her away.
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  Speaker 1: She has led off enter Frank to execution officers, et cetera.
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  Speaker 10: He is the sad object which I yet must meet
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  Speaker 10: with hope of comfort. If a repentant end make him
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  Speaker 10: more happy than misform June would suffer him here.
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  Speaker 7: To be.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 6: Sirs, turn from me. You will revive affliction. Almost killed
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  Speaker 6: with my continual sorrow.
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  Speaker 10: Oh Frank, Frank, would I had sunk in mine own
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  Speaker 10: wants or died, but one bare minute ere thy fault
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  Speaker 10: was acted to.
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  Speaker 6: Look upon your sorrows executes me before my execution.
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  Speaker 19: Let me pray you, sir, thou much wronged woman.
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  Speaker 6: I must sigh for THEE as he that's only loath
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  Speaker 6: to leave the world, for that he leaves THEE in it, unprovided, unfriended.
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  Speaker 6: And for me to beg a pity from any man
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  Speaker 6: to THEE when I am gone is more than I
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  Speaker 6: can hope, nor to say truth, have I deserved it?
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  Speaker 6: But there is a payment belongs to goodness from the
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  Speaker 6: great exchequer above. It will not fail THEE Winifred be
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  Speaker 6: that thy comfort.
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  Speaker 10: Let it be thine too, untimely lost young man, he.
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  Speaker 6: Is not lost, who bears his peace within him. Had
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  Speaker 6: I spun my web of life out at full length
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  Speaker 6: and dreamed away my many years in lusts, in surfeits,
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  Speaker 6: murders of reputations, gallant sins condemned or approved, then though
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  Speaker 6: I had died easily, as great and rich men do
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  Speaker 6: upon mine own bed, not compelled by justice, you might
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  Speaker 6: have mourned for me. Indeed, my miseries had been as
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  Speaker 6: everlasting as remediless. But now the law have not arraigned,
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  Speaker 6: condemned with greater rigor my unhappy fact than I myself have.
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  Speaker 6: Every little sin my memory can reckon from my childhood.
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  Speaker 6: A court have been kept here where I am found guilty.
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  Speaker 6: The difference is my impartial judge is much more gracious
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  Speaker 6: than my faults are monstrous to be named, yet they
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  Speaker 6: are monstrous.
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  Speaker 10: He is comfort in this penitence.
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  Speaker 19: It speaks how truly you are reckoned d and quickens
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  Speaker 19: my dying comfort that was near expiring with my last breath.
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  Speaker 19: Now this repentance makes THEE as white as innocence, And
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  Speaker 19: my first sin with THEE, since which I knew none
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  Speaker 19: like it, by my sorrow is clearly canceled. Might our
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  Speaker 19: souls together climb to the height of their eternity, and
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  Speaker 19: there enjoy what earth denied us happiness. But since I
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  Speaker 19: must survive and be the monument of thy loved memory,
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  Speaker 19: I will preserve it with a religious care and pay
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  Speaker 19: thy ashes a widow's duty, calling that end best, which,
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  Speaker 19: though whitch stain the name, makes the soul blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Frank responds, give me thy hand, poor woman, do not weep?
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  Speaker 1: Farewell thou dost forgive me?
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  Speaker 6: Tis my part to use that language, Oh, that my
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  Speaker 6: example might teach the world hereafter what a curse hangs
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  Speaker 6: on their heads? Who rather choose to marry a goodly
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  Speaker 6: portion than a dower of virtues? Are you there, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 6: There is not one amongst you whom I have not
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  Speaker 6: wronged to carter you most I robbed you of a daughter.
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  Speaker 6: But she is in heaven, and I must suffer for
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  Speaker 6: it willingly.
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  Speaker 3: I I she is in heaven, and I am so
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  Speaker 3: glad to see THEE so well prepared to follow her.
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  Speaker 3: I forgive THEE with all my heart. If thou hadst
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  Speaker 3: not had ill counsel, thou wouldst not have done as
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  Speaker 3: thou didst. The more shame for them.
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  Speaker 5: Spare your excuse to me. I do conceive what you
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  Speaker 5: would speak. I would you could as easily make satisfaction
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  Speaker 5: to the law as to my wrongs. I am sorry
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  Speaker 5: for you, and so.
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  Speaker 4: Am I and heartily forgive you.
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  Speaker 18: I will pray for you for her sake, who I
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  Speaker 18: am sure did love you dearly.
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  Speaker 2: Let us part, friend the too. I am ashamed of
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  Speaker 2: my part and thy wrongs.
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  Speaker 6: You are all merciful, and send me to my grave
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  Speaker 6: in peace, sir, Arthur Heaven send you a new heart.
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  Speaker 6: Lastly to you, sir, and though I have deserved not
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  Speaker 6: to be called your son, yet give me leave upon
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  Speaker 6: my knees to beg a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Niels take it.
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  Speaker 10: Let me wet thy cheeks with the last tears my
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 10: griefs have left me. Oh, Frank, Frank, Frank.
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  Speaker 6: Let me beseech you, gentlemen, to comfort my old father.
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  Speaker 6: Keep him with you, love this distressed widow, And as
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  Speaker 6: often as you remember what a graceless man I was,
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  Speaker 6: remember likewise that these are both free, both worthy of
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 6: a better fate than such a son or husband as
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  Speaker 6: I have been. All help me with your prayers. On
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  Speaker 6: on tis just that law should purge the guilt of
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  Speaker 6: blood and lust.
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  Speaker 1: Exit let off by the officers.
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  Speaker 3: Go thy ways. I did not think to have shed
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  Speaker 3: one tear for thee, but thou hast made me water
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  Speaker 3: my plants spite of my heart, Master Thorny, cheer up, man,
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  Speaker 3: Whilst I can stand by you, you shall not want
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  Speaker 3: help to keep you from falling. We have lost our children,
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  Speaker 3: both on the wrong way, but we could not help it.
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  Speaker 3: Better or worse. Tis now as tis I thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Sir.
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  Speaker 10: You are more kind than I have cause to hope
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  Speaker 10: or look for.
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  Speaker 3: Master Somerton, is Kate yours or no?
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  Speaker 5: We are agreed, and.
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  Speaker 18: But my faith is past. I should fare to be married.
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  Speaker 18: Husbands are so cruelly unkind. Excuse me that I am
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  Speaker 18: thus troubled.
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  Speaker 5: Thou shalt have no cause.
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  Speaker 15: Take comfort, Mistress Winterfrid Sir Arthur for his abuse to
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  Speaker 15: you and to your husband, and is by the bench
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  Speaker 15: enjoined to pay you down a thousand marks, which I
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  Speaker 15: will soon discharge.
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  Speaker 19: Sir, tis too great a sum to be employed upon
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  Speaker 19: my funeral.
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  Speaker 3: Come Come. If luck had served Sir Arthur, and every
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 3: man had his due, somebody might have tottered ere this
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  Speaker 3: without paying fines like it as you list come to me.
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  Speaker 3: Winifred shalt be welcome, make much of her, Kate, I
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  Speaker 3: charge you, I do not think. But she's a good
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 3: wench and hath had wrong as well as we. So
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  Speaker 3: let's every man home to Edmonton with heavy hearts, yet
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  Speaker 3: as merry as we can, though not as we would.
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  Speaker 15: Joined friends in sorrow, make of all the best arms
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  Speaker 15: past may be lamented, not redressed.
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  Speaker 1: Exit epilog spoken by Winnifred.
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  Speaker 19: I am a widow still and must not sort a
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  Speaker 19: second choice without a good report, which though some widows
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  Speaker 19: find and few deserve, yet I dare not presume, but
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 19: will not swerve from modest hopes. All noble tongues are free.
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  Speaker 19: The gentle may speak one kind word for me.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act five. End of The Witch of Edmonton
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  Speaker 1: by William Rowleigh, Thomas Decker, and John Ford