Car. Your marriage-money shall be received before your wedding-shoes can be pulled on. Blessing on you both!
Frank [Aside]. No man can hide his shame from Heaven that views him;
In vain he flees whose destiny pursues him. [Exeunt.
ACT THE SECOND.
SCENE I.—The Fields near Edmonton.
Enter Mother Sawyer gathering sticks.
Mother Sawyer. And why on me? why should the envious world
Throw all their scandalous malice upon me?
’Cause I am poor, deformed, and ignorant,
And like a bow buckled and bent together
By some more strong in mischiefs than myself,
Must I for that be made a common sink
For all the filth and rubbish of men’s tongues
To fall and run into? Some call me witch,
And being ignorant of myself, they go
About to teach me how to be one; urging
That my bad tongue—by their bad usage made so—
Forspeaks[420] their cattle, doth bewitch their corn,
Themselves, their servants, and their babes at nurse.
This they enforce upon me, and in part
Make me to credit it; and here comes one
Of my chief adversaries.