Such is your sentence.

Go.
WHARTON.
John Endicott, it had been well for thee If this day's doings thou hadst left undone But, banish me as far as thou hast power, Beyond the guard and presence of my God Thou canst not banish me.
ENDICOTT.
Depart the Court; We have no time to listen to your babble.
Who's next?
[Exit WHARTON.
MERRY.
This woman, for the same offence.
EDITH comes forward.
ENDICOTT.
What is your name?
EDITH.
'T is to the world unknown, But written in the Book of Life.
ENDICOTT.
Take heed It be not written in the Book of Death! What is it?
EDITH.
Edith Christison.
ENDICOTT (with eagerness).
The daughter Of Wenlock Christison?
EDITH.
I am his daughter.
ENDICOTT.
Your father hath given us trouble many times.
A bold man and a violent, who sets At naught the authority of our Church and State, And is in banishment on pain of death.
Where are you living?
EDITH.
In the Lord.
ENDICOTT.
Make answer Without evasion.

Where?
EDITH.
My outward being Is in Barbadoes.
ENDICOTT.
Then why come you here?
EDITH.
I come upon an errand of the Lord.
ENDICOTT.
'Tis not the business of the Lord you're doing; It is the Devil's.

Will you take the oath?
Give her the Book.
MERRY offers the Book.
EDITH.
You offer me this Book To swear on; and it saith, "Swear not at all, Neither by heaven, because it is God's Throne, Nor by the earth, because it is his footstool!" I dare not swear.
ENDICOTT.
You dare not?
Yet you Quakers Deny this book of Holy Writ, the Bible, To be the Word of God.
EDITH (reverentially).
Christ is the Word, The everlasting oath of God.

I dare not.
ENDICOTT.
You own yourself a Quaker,--do you not?
EDITH.
I own that in derision and reproach I am so called.
ENDICOTT.
Then you deny the Scripture To be the rule of life.
EDITH.
Yea, I believe The Inner Light, and not the Written Word, To be the rule of life.
ENDICOTT.
And you deny That the Lord's Day is holy.
EDITH.
Every day Is the Lords Day.