SCENE II A Street. Enter John Endicott and Upsall.
JOHN ENDICOTT.
Scourged in three towns! and yet the busy people
Got up and down the streets on their affairs
Of business or of pleasure, as if nothing
Had happened to disturb them or their thoughts!
When bloody tragedies like this are acted
The pulses of a nation should stand still;
The town should be in mourning, and the people
Speak only in low whispers to each other.
UPSALL.
I know this people; and that underneath
A cold outside there burns a secret fire
That will find vent, and will not be put out,
Till every remnant of these barbarous laws
Shall be to ashes burned, and blown away.
JOHN ENDICOTT.
Scourged in three towns! It is incredible
Such things can be! I feel the blood within me
Fast mounting in rebellion, since in vain
Have I implored compassion of my father!
UPSALL.
You know your father only as a father;
I know him better as a Magistrate.
He is a man both loving and severe;
A tender heart; a will inflexible.
None ever loved him more that I have loved him.
He is an upright man and a just man
In all things save the treatment of the Quakers.
JOHN ENDICOTT.
Yet I have found him cruel and unjust
Even as a father. He has driven me forth
Into the street; has shut his door upon me,
With words of bitterness. I am as homeless
As these poor Quakers are.
UPSALL.
Then come with me.
You shall be welcome for your father’s sake,
And the old friendship that has been between us.
He will relent erelong. A father’s anger
Is like a sword without a handle, piercing
Both ways alike, and wounding him that wields it
No less than him that it is pointed at.
[Exeunt.
The New England Tragedies 1868
- John Endicott: DAMATIS PERSONÆ
- John Endicott: PROLOGUE
- John Endicott: ACT I - SCENE I
- John Endicott: ACT I - SCENE II
- John Endicott: ACT I - SCENE III
- John Endicott: ACT II - SCENE I
- John Endicott: ACT II - SCENE II
- John Endicott: ACT II - SCENE III
- John Endicott: ACT III - SCENE I
- John Endicott: ACT III - SCENE II
- John Endicott: ACT III - SCENE III
- John Endicott: ACT IV - SCENE I
- John Endicott: ACT IV - SCENE II
- John Endicott: ACT IV - SCENE III
- John Endicott: ACT IV - SCENE IV
- John Endicott: ACT IV - SCENE V
- John Endicott: ACT V - SCENE I
- John Endicott: ACT V - SCENE II
- John Endicott: ACT V - SCENE III
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: DAMATIS PERSONÆ
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: PROLOGUE
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT I - SCENE I
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT I - SCENE II
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT II - SCENE I
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT II - SCENE II
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT II - SCENE III
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT III - SCENE I
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT III - SCENE II
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT III - SCENE III
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT III - SCENE IV
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT IV - SCENE I
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT IV - SCENE II
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT V - SCENE I
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT V - SCENE II
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT V - SCENE III
- Giles Corey of the Salem Farms: ACT VI - SCENE IV