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Chapters (43)
  1. Cover Page
  2. The Witch
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. ABBREVIATIONS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. FURTHER READING
  7. The Witch
  8. [DRAMATIS PERSONAE]
  9. THE WITCH
  10. [Act I,] Scene ii
  11. Act II, Scene i
  12. [Act II,] Scene ii
  13. [Act II,] Scene iii
  14. Act III, Scene i
  15. [Act III,] Scene ii
  16. [Act III,] Scene iii
  17. Act IV, Scene i
  18. [Act IV,] Scene ii
  19. [Act IV,] Scene iii
  20. Act V, Scene i
  21. [Act V,] Scene ii
  22. [Act V,] Scene iii
  23. APPENDIX
  24. In a maiden time profess’d
  25. Come Away, Hecate!
  26. Notes
  27. Thomas Holmes, Esquire
  28. Act I, Scene i
  29. [Act I,] Scene ii
  30. Act II, Scene i
  31. [Act II,] Scene ii
  32. [Act II,] Scene iii
  33. Act III, Scene i
  34. [Act III,] Scene ii
  35. [Act III,] Scene iii
  36. Act IV, Scene i
  37. [Act IV,] Scene ii
  38. Act IV Scene iii
  39. Act V, Scene i
  40. [Act V,] Scene ii
  41. [Act V,] Scene iii
  42. Appendix
  43. Footnotes
GASPERO
Good sir, whence springs this sadness? Trust me, sir,
You look not like a man was married yesterday.
There could come no ill tidings since last night
To cause that discontent. I was wont to know all
Before you had a wife sir. You ne’er found me 5
Without those parts of manhood: trust and secrecy.
ANTONIO
I will not tell thee this.
GASPERO      Not your true servant sir?
ANTONIO
True? You’ll all flout according to your talent,
The best a man can keep of you – and a hell ’tis
For masters to pay wages to be laughed at. 10
Give order that two cocks be boiled to jelly.
GASPERO
How? two cocks boiled to jelly?
ANTONIO
Fetch half an ounce of pearl.      Exit
GASPERO      This is a cullis
For a consumption – and I hope one night
Has not brought you to need the cook already, 15
And some part of the goldsmith. What, two trades
In four and twenty hours and less time?
Pray heaven the surgeon and the pothecary
Keep out and then ’tis well. You’d better fortune,
As far as I see, with your strumpet sojourner, 20
Your little four nobles a week. I ne’er knew you
Eat one panada all the time you’ve kept her –
And is’t in one night now come up to two-cock broth?
I wonder at the alteration strangely.

Enter FRANCISCA