Confusion and murmurs during the scene.
HATHORNE.
Call Martha Corey.
MARTHA.
I am here.
HATHORNE.
Come forward.
She ascends the platform.
The Jurors of our Sovereign Lord and Lady The King and Queen, here present, do accuse you Of having on the tenth of June last past, And divers other times before and after, Wickedly used and practised certain arts Called Witchcrafts, Sorceries, and Incantations, Against one Mary Walcot, single woman, Of Salem Village; by which wicked arts The aforesaid Mary Walcot was tormented, Tortured, afflicted, pined, consumed, and wasted, Against the peace of our Sovereign Lord and Lady The King and Queen, as well as of the Statute Made and provided in that case.

What say you?
MARTHA.
Before I answer, give me leave to pray.
HATHORNE.
We have not sent for you, nor are we here, To hear you pray, but to examine you In whatsoever is alleged against you.
Why do you hurt this person?
MARTHA.
I do not.
I am not guilty of the charge against me.
MARY.
Avoid, she-devil! You may torment me now! Avoid, avoid, Witch! MARTHA.
I am innocent.
I never had to do with any Witchcraft Since I was born.

I am a gospel woman.
MARY.
You are a gospel Witch! MARTHA (clasping her hands).
Ah me! ah me! Oh, give me leave to pray! MARY (stretching out her hands).
She hurts me now.
See, she has pinched my hands! HATHORNE.
Who made these marks Upon her hands?
MARTHA.
I do not know.

I stand Apart from her.

I did not touch her hands.
HATHORNE.
Who hurt her then?
MARTHA.
I know not.
HATHORNE.
Do you think She is bewitched?
MARTHA.
Indeed I do not think so.
I am no Witch, and have no faith in Witches.
HATHORNE.
Then answer me: When certain persons came To see you yesterday, how did you know Beforehand why they came?
MARTHA.
I had had speech; The children said I hurt them, and I thought These people came to question me about it.
HATHORNE.
How did you know the children had been told To note the clothes you wore?
MARTHA.
My husband told me What others said about it.
HATHORNE.
Goodman Corey, Say, did you tell her?
COREY.
I must speak the truth; I did not tell her.