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KEMP

SCENE I. The Court of Assistants.
ENDICOTT, BELLINGHAM, ATHER-
TON, and other magistrates.
THORN, MERRY, and constables. Af
terwards WHARTON, EDITH, and
CHRISTISON.

ENDICOTT.

Call Captain Simon Kempthorn.

MERRY.

Simon Kempthorn,

Come to the bar!

KEMPTHORN comes forward.

ENDICOTT.

You are accused of bringing

Stir up sedition, not my judgment of Into this Jurisdiction, from Barba

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does,

Some persons of that sort and sect of In bonds amounting to one hundred

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commandment

WHARTON.

Which sayeth" Honor thy father and Nay, sirrah me no sirrahs !

thy mother."

WHARTON.

John Endicott, thou art become too

proud:

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ENDICOTT.

Will you swear?

WHARTON.

And lovest him who putteth off the Nay, I will not.

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I made no disturbance; For peacefully I stood, like other people.

Now, sirrah, leave your canting. I spake no words; moved against

Take the oath.

none my hand;

But by the hair they haled me out, At naught the authority of our Church

and dashed

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and State,

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The daughter

Of Wenlock Christison ?

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EDITH.

ENDICOTT.

I am his daughter.

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You own yourself a Quaker, not?

EDITH.

I own that in derision and reproach I am so called.

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