From The Crucible

DANFORTH: A little while ago you were afflicted.  Now it seems you afflict others; where did you find this power?

MARY WARREN, starrng at Abigail: I have no power.

GIRLS: I have no power.

PROCTOR: They’re gulling you, Mister!

DANFORTH: Why did you turn about this past two weeks?  You have seen the Devil, have you not?

HALE, indicating Abigail and the girls:  You cannot believe them!

MARY WARREN: I?

PROCTOR, sensing her weakenin: Mary, God damns all liars!

DANFORTH, pounding it into her: You have seen the Devil, you have made compact with Lucifer, have you not?

PROCTOR: God damns liars, Mary!

Mary utters something unintelligible, staring at Abigail, who keeps watching the “bird” above.

DANFORTH: I cannot hear you. What do you say? Mary mutters again unintelligibly.You will confess yourself or you will hang! He turns her roughly to face him.Do you know who I am? I say you will hang if you do not open with me!

PROCTOR: Mary, remember the angel Raphael? Do that which is good and?

ABIGAIL, pointing upward: The wings! Her wings are spreading! Mary, please, don’t, don’t!

HALE:  I see nothing, Your honor!

DANFORTH: Do you confess this power! He is an inch from her face. Speak!

ABIGAIL: She going to come down! She’s walking the beam!

DANFORTH: Will you speak!

MARY WARREN, starring in horror: I cannot!

GIRLS: I cannot!

PARRIS: Cast the Devil out! Look him in the face! Trample him!  We’ll save you, Mary, only stand fast against him and?

ABIGAIL, looking up: Look out!  She’s coming down!

She and all the girls run to one wall, sheilding their eyes. And now, as though cornered, they let out a gigantic scream, and Mary, as though infected, opens her mouth and screams with them.  Gradually Abigail and the girls leave off, until only Mary is left there, starring up at the “bird”, screaming madly.  All watch her, horrified by this evident fit.  Proctor strides to her.

PROCTOR: Mary, tell the governor what they?He has hardly got a word out, when, seeing him coming for her, she rushes out of his reach, screaming in
horror.

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. . . as Abigail, out of her infite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her, and then looks up to Danforth.

DANFORTH, to Proctor: What are you? Proctor is beyond speech in his anger. You are combined with anti-Christ, are you not? I have seen you power; you will not deny it! What say you, Mister?

HALE: Excellency?

DANFORTH: I will have nothing from you, Mr. Hale! To Proctor: Will you confess yourself befouled with Hell, or do you keep that black allegiance yet? What say you?

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say?I say? God is dead!

PARRIS: Hear it, hear it!

PROCTOR, laughs insanely, then: A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud?God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

DANFORTH: Marshal! Take him and Corey with him to the jail!

HALE, starting across to the door: I denounce these proceedings!

PROCTOR: You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!

HALE: I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court! He slams the door to the outside behind him.

DANFORTH, calling to him in a fury: Mr. Hale! Mr. Hale!

THE CURTAIN FALLS