Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . ACT THE bow buckled and bent SCENE I.—The Fields near Edmonton. Enter Mother Sawyer gathering sticks. OTHER SAWYER. And why on me ?why should the envious worldThrow all their scandalous malice upon me?Cause I am poor, deformed, and like atogetherBy some more strong in mischiefs than I for that be made a common sinkFor all the filth and rubbish of mens tonguesTo fall and run into ? Some call me witch,And being ignorant of myself, they goAbout to teach me how to be one ; urgingThat my bad tongue—by their bad usag
Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . ACT THE bow buckled and bent SCENE I.—The Fields near Edmonton. Enter Mother Sawyer gathering sticks. OTHER SAWYER. And why on me ?why should the envious worldThrow all their scandalous malice upon me?Cause I am poor, deformed, and like atogetherBy some more strong in mischiefs than I for that be made a common sinkFor all the filth and rubbish of mens tonguesTo fall and run into ? Some call me witch,And being ignorant of myself, they goAbout to teach me how to be one ; urgingThat my bad tongue—by their bad usage made so —Forspeaks their cattle, doth bewitch their , their servants, and their babes at they enforce upon me, and in partMake me to credit it; and here comes oneOf my chief adversaries. Enter Old Banks. 0. Banks. Out, out upon thee, witch ! * Another term for bewitch commonly in use ; the word pro-bably implied the muttering or forspeaking of a spell. SCENE I.] THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. 409 M. Saw. Dost call me witch ? O. Batiks.
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