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Giles Corey of the Salem Farms

  
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

  
PROLOGUE.
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ACT I.
 1.1. 
I. — The woods near Salem Village.
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II. — A room at JUSTICE HATHORNE'S. A clock in the corner.
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III. — A room in WALCOT'S House. MARY WALCOT seated in an arm-chair. TITUBA with a mirror.
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ACT II
 2.1. 
I. — GILES COREY's farm. Morning.
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II. — The Green in front of the Meeting-house in Salem village. People coming and going.
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III. — COREY's kitchen. A table with supper. MARTHA knitting.
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ACT III.
 3.1. 
I. — GILES COREY'S kitchen. Morning. COREY and MARTHA sitting at the breakfast-table.
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II. — A street in Salem Village.
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III. — A room in COREY's house. MARTHA and two Deacons of the church.
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IV. — Meadows on Ipswich River, COREY and his men mowing; COREY in advance.
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ACT IV
 4.1. 
I. — The Green in front of the village Meeting-house. An excited crowd gathering.
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II. — Interior of the Meeting-house. MATHER and the Magistrates seated in front of the pulpit. Before them a raised platform. MARTHA in chains. COREY near her. MARY WALCOT in a chair. A crowd of spectators, among them GLOYD. Confusion and murmurs during the scene.
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ACT V.
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I. — Corey's farm as in Act II., Scene I.
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II.. — The prison. GILES COREY at a table on which are some papers.
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III— A street in the Village.
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IV. — A field near the graveyard, GILES COREY lying dead, with a great stone on his breast. The Sheriff at his head, RICHARD GARDNER at his feet. A crowd behind. The bell tolling.

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I. — The Green in front of the village Meeting-house. An excited crowd gathering.

Enter JOHN GLOYD.
A FARMER.
Who will be tried to-day?

A SECOND.
I do not know.
Here is John Gloyd. Ask him; he knows.

FARMER.
John Gloyd,
Whose turn is it to-day?

GLOYD.
It's Goodwife Corey's.

FARMER.
Giles Corey's wife?

GLOYD.
The same. She is not mine.
It will go hard with her with all her praying.
The hypocrite! She's always on her knees;
But she prays to the Devil when she prays.
Let us go in.

A trumpet blows.
FARMER.
Here come the Magistrates.

SECOND FARMER.
Who's the tall man in front?

GLOYD.
Oh, that is Hathorne,
A Justice of the Court, and a Quarter-master
In the Three County Troop. He'll sift the matter.
That's Corwin with him; and the man in black
Is Cotton Mather, Minister of Boston.

Enter HATHORNE and other Magistrates on horseback, followed by the Sheriff, constables, and attendants on foot. The Magistrates dismount, and enter the Meeting-house, with the rest.
FARMER.
The Meeting-house is full. I never saw
So great a crowd before.

GLOYD.
No matter. Come.
We shall find room enough by elbowing
Our way among them. Put your shoulder to it.

FARMER.
There were not half so many at the trial
Of Goodwife Bishop.

GLOYD.
Keep close after me.
I'll find a place for you. They'll want me there.
I am a friend of Corey's, as you know,
And he can't do without me just at present.

[Exeunt.
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