The Witch - Accusations and Tensions in a Witch Trial
Mercy:
Don't let her near me! She'll place a curse on me!
Thomasin:
They conspire against me!
Mercy:
Thomasin is a witch!
William:
Nay. I'll not hear it. I'll have proof of it, or heaven help thee. On thy knees! Look me in the eye, daughter. Dost thou love the word of God?
Thomasin:
Yes.
William:
Love you The Bible? Love you Prayer?
Thomasin:
Yes! Yes!
William:
We are children of sin all, yet I tell thee, I have raised up no witch in this house. Let us pray, then we need fear nothing. We shall never lie open to the wicked one. Pray for thy brother.
Mercy:
You must believe us.
Thomasin:
Evil wretches!
William:
Thomasin! Thomasin! Pray! Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name... Jonas, pray!
Jonas:
I... I cannot remember my prayer.
William:
What?
Mercy:
Nor I. I cannot.
William:
What nonsense is this? Speak, children: Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name... Pray. Pray, you beasts.
Katherine:
Get on thy knees and pray!
William:
Damnation! Thomasin! Stop! I cannot hear this. This is not so!
Caleb: [raving; he dies]
A toad. A cat. A crow. A raven. A great black dog. A wolf. She desires of my blood. She desires of my blood. She sends em upon me. She desires of my blood. They feed upon her teats. She desires of my blood. She desires of my blood. Her nether parts! She sends em upon me. She desires of my blood. My Lord, My Jesus! Save me! She desires of my blood. Think on Christ! She sends her Devils...I am thine enemy. She desires of my blood, wallowing in the blood and filth of my sins...Cast the light of thy Countenance upon me. Spread over me the lap of thy love. Wash me in the ever-flowing fountains of thy blood. Wholly thine I am, my sweet Lord Jesus. My Lord, my love! Kiss me with the kisses of thy mouth. How lovely art thou! Thy embrace! My Lord! My Lord! My Love! My soul's salvation, take me to thy lap!
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The Witch - Sibling Rivalry and Blame in The Witch
Thomasin:
Why is it when thou dost a wrong, I be a-washing Fathers clothes like a slave, and thou art playing idle?
Mercy:
Because Mother hates you!
Thomasin:
Spoilt child.
Mercy:
I'll tell Mother you have left the farm alone. Black Phillip saith I can do what I like.
Thomasin:
Devil take your Black Phillip.
Mercy:
It's your fault I cannot leave the yard. I could go to the brook before you let The Witch take Sam.
Thomasin:
Quiet thee.
Caleb:
It was a wolf stole Sam.
Mercy:
A witch. I've seen her in her riding cloak about the Wood!
Caleb:
Father showed me the tracks.
Mercy:
It was a witch!
Thomasin:
It was a witch, Mercy. You speak aright.
Caleb:
Thomasin!
Thomasin:
It was I!
Mercy:
Liar.
Thomasin: [walking gradually toward her sister]
Twas I what stole him. I be the Witch of the Wood.
Mercy:
Liar! Liar!
Thomasin:
I am.
Caleb:
List not to her, Mercy.
Thomasin:
I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That's how I signed his book.
Mercy:
No!
Thomasin:
He bade me bring him an unbaptized babe, so I stole Sam, and I gave him to my master. And I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like.
Mercy:
No.
Thomasin:
Aye. And Ill vanish thee too if thou displeaseth me.
Mercy:
Be quiet.
Cableb:
Mercy, she's but telling fantasies.
Thomasin:
Perchance I'll boil and bake thee since we are lack of food.
Mercy:
Stop!
Caleb:
Stop, Thomasin.
Mercy:
tis not true!
Thomasin:
It is, thou thing! How I crave to sink my teeth into thy pink flesh. If ever thou tellst thy mother of this, I will witch thee and thy mother!
Caleb:
And Jonas too!
Mercy:
Caleb!
Thomasin:
Stop thy tears and swear thy silence.
Mercy:
I swear it.
Thomasin:
You will not tell Mother nor Father!
Mercy:
I swear!
Caleb:
Thomasin, let her alone!
Mercy: [running away]
Get away from her, Caleb, or she'll witch thee!
Caleb:
Why tell Mercy those horrible fancies?
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The Witch - Faith and Understanding in Grief
Caleb:
Was Samuel born a sinner? How might then...
William:
We pray he hath entered God's Kingdom.
Caleb:
What wickedness hath he done?
William:
Place faith in God, Caleb. We'll speak no more on thy brother.
Caleb:
Why? He hath disappeared not one week past, yet you and Mother utter not his name.
William:
He is gone, Caleb.
Caleb:
Tell me.
William:
Tell thee what?
Caleb:
Is he in hell?
William:
Caleb!
Caleb:
Mother will not stop her prayer...And if he died? If I died this day?
William:
What is this?
Caleb:
I hold evil in my heart. My sins are not pardoned.
William:
Thou art youngly yet.
Caleb:
And if God will not hear my prayers?
William:
Caleb...
Caleb:
Tell me!
William:
Look you, I love thee marvelous well, but tis God alone, not man, what knows who is a son of Abraham and who is not. Who is good and who is evil. Fain would I tell thee Sam sleeps in Jesus, that thou wilt, that I will, but I cannot tell thee that. None can.
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The Witch - The Nature of Sin and Iniquity
William:
Art thou then born a sinner?
Caleb:
Aye. I was conceived in sin, and born in iniquity.
William:
And, what is thy birth sin?
Caleb:
Adam's sin imputed to me, and a corrupt nature dwelling within me.
William:
Well-remembered, Caleb. Very well. And canst thou tell me what thy corrupt nature is?
Caleb:
My corrupt nature is empty of grace, bent unto sin, only unto sin, and that continually.
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The Witch - Questions of Faith and Purpose in Wilderness
William: [before the court]
What went we out into this wilderness to find? Leaving our country, kindred, our fathers houses? We have travailed a vast ocean. For what? For what?
Governor:
We must ask thee to be silent!
William:
Was it not for the pure and faithful dispensation of the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God?
Old Slater:
No more! We are your judges, and not you ours!
William:
I cannot be judged by false Christians, for I have done nothing, save preach Christ's true Gospel.
Governor:
Must you continue to dishonor the laws of the commonwealth and the church with your prideful conceit?
William:
If my conscience sees it fit.
Governor:
Then shall you be banished out of this plantation's liberties!
William:
I would be glad of it.
Governor:
Then take your leave, and trouble us no further.
William: [turning to leave]
How sadly hath The Lord testified against you. Katherine...
Caleb:
Thomasin! Come.
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