The Crucible - Marry Warren Lines

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Mercy: Oh, Jesus!

What’ll we do, the whole village is out!

Mercy: “What’ll we do?”

I just come from the farm, the whole country’s talkin witchcraft! They’ll be calling us witches, Abby!

Mercy: “They’ll be callin us witches, Abby. She means to tell, I know it.”

Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witcher is a hanging error, a hanging like they done in Boston two years ago! We must tell the truth, Abby! - You’ll only be whipped for dancing, and the other things.

Abigail: “Oh, we’ll be whipped.”

I never done none of it, Abby, I only looked!

Abigail’s Monologue

what’s got her? Abby, she’s going to die! It’s a sin to conjure and we…

Abigail: “ I say shut it, Mary Warren!”

oh! I’m just going home, Mr. Proctor.

Proctor: “Be you foolish, Mary Warren? Be you deaf? I forbid you leave the house, did I not? why shall I pay you? I am looking for you more often than my cows!

I only come to see the great doings in the world.

Proctor: “Oh ,Elizabeth, Your justice would freeze beer. How do you go to Salem when I forbid it! Do you mock me? I’ll whip you if you dare leave this house again!

I am sick, I am sick, Mr. Proctor. Pray, Pray, hurt me not. My insides are all shuddery; I am in the proceedings all day, sir.

Proctor: “…and my wife not wholly well?”

I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sot long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.

Elizabeth: “Why, thank you, it’s a fair poppet.”

We must all love each other now, Goody Proctor.

Elizabeth: “Aye, indeed we must.”

I’ll get up early in the morning and clean the house. I must sleep now.

Proctor: “Mary. Is it true there be fourteen women arrested?”

No, sir. There be thirty-nine now…

Elizabeth: “…What ails you, child?”

Goody Osburn…will hang!

Proctor: “Hang! Hang, y’say?”

Aye…

Proctor: “The Deputy Governor will permit it?”

He sentenced her. He must- But not Sarah Good. For Sarah Good confessed, y’see.

Proctor: ¨Confessed! To what?¨

That she sometimes made a compact with Lucifer, and wrote her name in his black book - with her blood - and bound herself to torment until God’s thrown down…and we all must worship hell forever more.

Proctor: “But…surely you know what a jabberer she is. Did you tell them that?”

Mister Proctor, in open court she near to chocked us all to death.

Proctor: “How chocked you?”

She sent her spirit out.

Elizabeth: “Oh, Mary, Mary, surely you…”

She tried to kill me many times, Goody Proctor!

Elizabeth: “Why, I never heard you mention that before.”

I never knew it before. I never knew anything before. When she come into court I say to myself, I must not accuse this woman, for she sleep in ditches, and so very old and poor…But then…then she sit there, denying and denying, and I feel a misty coldness climbing up my back, and the skin on my skull begin to free, and I feel a clamp around my neck and I cannot breathe air; and then…I hear a voice, a screaming voice, and it were my voice…and all at once I remembered everything she done to me!

Proctor: “Why? - What did she do to you?”

So many time, Mister Proctor, she come to this very door begging bread and a cup of cider - and mark this - whenever I turned her away empty - she mumbled.

Elizabeth: “Mumbled! She may mumble, hungry.”

But what does she mumble? You must remember, Goody Proctor - last month - a Monday I think - she walked away and I thought my guts would burst for two days after. Do you remember it?

Elizabeth: “Why…I do, I think, but….”

And so I told that to Judge Hawthorne, and he asks her so - “Goody Good,” says he, “what curse do you mumble that this girl must fall sick after turning you away?”. And then she replies: “Why, your excellence, no curse at all; I only say my commandments; I hope I may say my commandments,” says she!

Elizabeth: “And that’s an upright answer.”

Aye, but then Judge Hawthorne say, “Revite for us your commandments! - and of all the ten she could not say a single one. She never know no commandments, and they had her in a flat lie.

Proctor: “And so condemned her?”

Why, they must when she condemned herself.

Proctor: “But the proof, the proof?”

I told you the proof - it’s hard proof, hard as rock the judges said.

Proctor: “You will not go to that court again, Mary Warren.”

I must tell you, sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see what weighty work we do.

Proctor: “What work you do! It’s strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!”

But, Mister Proctor, they will not hang them if they confess. Sarah Good will only sit in jail some time…and here’s a wonder for you, think on this. Goody Good is pregnant!

Elizabeth: “Pregant! Are they mad? - the woman’s near sixty!”

They had Doctor Griggs examine her and she’s full to the brim. And smoking a pipe all these years and no husband either! - but she’s safe - thank God; for they’ll not hurt the innocent child. But be that not a marvel? You must see it, sir, it’s Gods work we do….So i’ll be gone every day for some time. I’m…I am an official of the court, they say, and I…

Proctor: “I’ll official you!”

I’ll not stand whipping any more! The Devils loose in Salem, Mister Proctor, we must discover where he’s hiding!

Proctor: “I’ll whip the Devil out of you!”

I saved her life today!

Elizabeth: “I am accused?”

you are somewhat mentioned. But I said I never see no sign you ever sent your spirit out to hurt no one, And seeing I do live so closely with you, they dismissed it.

Elizabeth: “Who accused me?”

I am bound by law; I cannot tell it. I…I Hope you’ll not be so sarcastical no more - four judges, and the kings deputy sat to dinner with us but an hour ago. I…I would have you speak civilly with me, from this out.

Proctor: “Go to bed.”

I’ll not be ordered to bed no more, Mister Proctor! I am eighteen and a woman, however single!

Proctor: “Do you wish to sit up? - then sit up!”

I wish to go to bed!

Proctor: “Good night, then!”

Good night.

Proctor: “Here now! Mary, how did this poppet come into my house?”

What poppets that, sir?

Proctor: “This poppet, this poppet.”

Why I…I think it is mine.

Proctor: “It is your poppet, is it not?”

It…is, sir.

Proctor: “And how did it come into this house?”

Why…I made it in the court, sir, and…give it to Goody Proctor tonight.

Hale: “Mary Warren…a needle have been found inside this poppet.”

Why, I meant no harm by it, sir

Proctor: “You stuck that needle in yourself?”

I…I believe I did, sir, I….

Hale: “…that someone conjures you even now to say this?”

Conjures me? - Why no, sir, I am entirely myself, I think. Let you ask Susanna Walcott - she saw me sewing it in court. Ask Abby, Abby sat beside me when I made it.

Hale: “Mary…you charge a cold and cruel murder on Abigail.”

Murder! I charge no…

Corey: “Good night, then.”

Mister Proctor, very likely they’ll let her come home once they’re given proper evidence.

Proctor: “…You will tell it in court.”

I cannot charge murder on Abigail…

Proctor: “You will tell the court how that poppet come here and who stuck the needle in.”

She’ll kill me for saying that! Abby’ll charge lechery on you, Mister Proctor!

Proctor: “She’s told you!”

I have known it, sir. She’ll ruin you with it, I know she will.

Proctor: “…You will tell the court what you know.”

I cannot. They’ll turn on me.

Proctor: “…but that goodness will not die for me.”

I cannot do it. I cannot.

Proctor: “…Make your peace.”

I cannot.

Proctor: “…Now remember what the angle Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Remember it.”

Aye

Danforth: “Mary Warren, how came you to this turnabout? Has Mister Proctor threatened you for this deposition?”

No, sir.

Danforth: “Has he ever threatened you?”

No, sir.

Danforth: “Has he threatened you?”

No, sir.

Danforth: “Then you tell me that you sat in my court, callously lying when you knew that people would hang by your evidence? Answer me!”

I did, sir.

Danforth: “How were you instructed in your life? - Do you not know that God damns all liars? Or is it now that you lie?”

No, sir - I am with God now.

Danforth: “You are with God now.”

Aye, sir.

Danforth: “…You cannot lightly say you lied, Mary. Do you know that?”

I cannot lie no more. I am with God, I am with God…

Danforth: “You would still go on with this?”

Aye, sir.

Hawthorne: “You say you never saw no spirits, Mary, were never threatened or afflicted by any manifest of the Devil or the Devils agents?”

No, sir.

Hawthorne: “And yet, when people accused of witchery confronted you in court, you would faint, saying their spirits came out of their bodies and choked you…”

That were pretense, sir.

Danforth: “I cannot hear you.”

Pretense, sir.

Paris: “…So let her turn herself cold now, let her pretend she is attacked now, let her faint. Faint!”

Faint?

Parris: “Aye, faint! Prove to us how you pretended in the court so many times.”

I…cannot faint now, sir.

Proctor: “Can you not pretend it?”

I..I have no sense of it now, I…

Danforth: “Why? What is lacking now?”

I…cannot tell, sir. I…

Danforth: “Might it be that here we have no afflicting spirit loose, but in court there were some?”

I never saw no spirits.

Parris: “Then see no spirits now, and prove to us that you can faint by your own will, as you claim.”

I…cannot do it.

Parris: “Then you will confess, will you not? Attacking spirits made you to faint!”

No, sir, I…

Parris: “Your excellency, this is a trick to blind the court.”

It’s not a trick! I…I used to faint because…I…I thought I saw spirits.

Danforth: “Thought you saw them!”

But I did not, Your Honor.

Hawthorne: “How could you think you saw them unless you saw them?”

I..I cannot tell how, but I did. I…I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honor, you seemed to believe them and I…It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits, and I..I promise you, Mister Danforth, I only thought I saw them but I did not.”

Abigail: “I…I know not. A wind, a cold wind has come.”

Abby!

Mercy: “She is cold, Your Honor, touch her!”

Lord save me!

Abigail: “I freeze - I freeze.”

Abby, don’t do that!

Danforth: “Mary Warren, do you witch her? I say to you, do you send your spirit out!”

Let me go, Mister Proctor, I cannot, I cannot…”

Abigail: “Envy is a deadly sin, Mary.”

Abby!

Abigail: “…No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it’s Gods work I do…”

Abby, I’m here!

Abigail: “Mary, please don’t hurt me!”

I’m not hurting her!

Hale: “You cannot believe them.”

She sees nothing!

Abigail: “She sees nothing!”

Abby, you mustn’t!

Girls: “Abby, you mustn’t!”

I’m here, I’m here!

Danforth: “Mary Warren! - Draw back your spirit out of them!”

Mister Danforth…!

Danforth: “Have you compacted with the Devil? Have you?”

Never, never!

Proctor: “Give me a whip - I’ll stop it!”

They’re sporting!

Girls: “They’re sporting!”

Abby, stop it!

Girls: “Abby, stop it!”

Stop it!!

Girls: “Stop it!!”

Stop it.

Danforth: “…Now it seems you afflict others; where did you find this power?”

I…have no power.

Danforth: “…You have seen the Devil, have you not?”

I…

Proctor: “Mary, tell the Governor what they-“

Don’t touch me…don’t touch me!

Proctor: “Mary!”

You are the Devils man!

Proctor: “Mary, how..?”

I’ll not hang with you! I love God, I love God-

Danforth: “He bid you do the Devils work?”

He come to me by night and every day to sign, to sign, to…

Parris: “The Devils book? He come with a book?”

My name, he want my name; I’ll murder you, he says, if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court, he says…!

Proctor: “Mr Hale…!”

He wake me every night, his eyes were like coal and his fingers claw at my neck, and I sign, I sign…

Proctor: “Mary, Mary..!”

No, I love God; I go your way no more. I love God, I bless God…Abby, Abby, I’ll never hurt you more!