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Cheever: It were always a man that wheep for contention

Oh, good morning, sir thank you for comin’, I bet your pardom wakin’ you so early. Good morning, judge Hathorne..

Danforth- Reverend Hale have no right to enter this…

Excellency, a moment

Danforth- What’s his business here

excellancy, hear me it is a providence. Reverend Hale has returned to bring Rebecca Nurse to god

Danforth- He bids her confess

Hear me. Rebecca have not given me a word this past 3 month since she came. Now she sits with him, her sister and Martha Corey and 2 or 3 others, and he pleads with them confess their crimes and save their lives

Danforth: Why-this is indeed a providence. and they soften, they soften

Parris- Not yet, not yet. But I thought to summon you, sir, that we might think on whether it be not wise to… there is news, sir, that the court, the court must reckon with, My niece…I believe she has vanished

Danforth- Vanished!

I had thought to advise you earlier in the week but…

Danforth- Why?- How long is she gone?

This be the third night- Mercy Lewis is gone, too.

Danforth- I will send a party for them where may they be?

Excellency, I think they be abroad a ship. My daughter tells me now she heard them speakin’ of ships last week, and tonight I discover…my strongbox broken into

Danforth- She robbed you!

31 pound is gone. I am penniless

Danforth- Mr. Parris you are a brainless man!

Excellany, it profit nothing to blame me. I cannot think they would run off except they fear to keep in Salem any more- since the news of Andover has broken here…

Danforth- Andover is remedied. The court returns there on Friday. and I will resume examinations

I am sure of it, sir, But the rumor here speaks rebellion in Andover, and it…

Danforth-There is no rebellion in Andover

I tell you what is said here, sir, Andover have thrown out the court, they say, and will have to part of witchcraft. There be a faction here feeding on the news, and I tell you true, sir, I fear there be a riot here

Hathorne- I have seen naught but high satisfaction in this town

Judge Hathorne- it were another sort that hanged til now. Rebecca Nurse is no Bridget that lived three year with bishop before she married him. John Proctor is not Issac Ward that drank his family to ruin (to Danforth) Let Rebcca stand up on the gibbert and send up some righteous prayer, and I fear she’ll wake a vengeance on you

Danforth- Pray you

Excellency…I would postpone these hangings for a time

Danforth- There will be no postponement

Now Mr Hales returned, there is hope, I think-for if he brings even one of these to God, that confession Surley damns the others in the public eye, and none may doubt more that they are all linked to hell. This way unconfessed and claiming innocence doubts are multiplied, may honest people will weep for them, and our good purpose is lost in their tears

Danforth- Cheever, give me the list

I cannot forgot sir, that when I summoned the congregation for Johns Proctors excommunication, there were hardly 30 people come to hear it, That speak a discontent, I think, and…

Danforth- There will be no postponement

Excellency…

Danforth- I will myself strive him till dawn

There is not sufficient time til dawn…

Danforth- Which of them do you have hope for?

Excellency…a dagger….

Danforth- What do you say?

Tonight, when I open my door to leave my house-a dagger clattered to the ground. You cannot hang this sort. There is danger for me. I dare not step outside at night.

Danforth- are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just.

Rebecca will not confess

Danforth- Might her presence soften him?

It is possible, sir-he have not laid eyes on her these 3 months. I should summon her

Elizabeth- let me speak with him. Excellency

You’ll strive with him?

Danforth- God help you turn your back on hell

If you desire a cup of cider, Mr Proctor, I am sure I…God lead you know

Danforth- Where is the Marshal

Willard! Hurry!

Proctor- I did

Praise God

Hale- Let him sign it, let him sign it…

It is a great service, sir- it is a weighty name, it will strike the village that he confess. I beg you, let him sign it, The sun is up. The sun is up Excellency!