_Judge Bride_: Stand back, all, from the woman. Dame Greene, deliver yourself of these things. The crowd drew back. Goody Greene, an old woman and of great dignity, was revealed to the Judges. Mr. Kleaver whispered to the Judges that she was an evil woman. _Goody Greene_: This girl never saw a devil. She saw my own son Shadrach. He was wanted for piracy—Heaven help me, I hid him by day, but he prowled by night. He had a monkey, he wore seaman’s clothes. He saw in my house the girl and lusted after her. I speak.... _A man from back_: Her husband says she lies—she never had no son. _Goody Greene_: Believe me, for Christ’s dear sake, believe me. I had a son and I hid him ... but they found him just the same ... God found out his sin. They hanged him; he was called the Bloody Shad. _The man_: The woman’s husband, sir, says she never had no son. Time has broken her memory. _Goody Greene_: Husband, you are afraid. You coward, who will not confess to the son of your own loins, lest you come to shame—now is Doll indeed undone.... _Judge Lollimour_: The woman is lunatic. See how she rolls her eyes. _Judge Bride_: Could you have had a son of which your husband knew nothing—why did you never speak of him to your neighbours? How can we believe your fables? You are lunatic. _Goody Greene_: God help me! God help me.... May God help Doll! _Judge Bride_: Constable, throw out this ancient—let her learn to be a sager hag—and her husband after her. A confusion and clamour of tongues rose from all parts of the courtroom. Some wished to say what they knew of the Greenes; others had stories to tell of lunacy, devils, etc. And there was laughing and crying among women, and children wailed and would be taken home. Judge Bride stood up in a noble wrath. _Judge Bride_: Clear the court! Clear the court! What, shall Justice find her house in Bedlam? Constables, pick up and carry out—if they are too weak to walk—the Thumb twins, and you, madame, who are their mother, go with them. Every one shall now be turned out into the snow except those who are the witnesses and proper officers of the law, and the six that I shall name. Mr. Increase Mather, Mr. Seth Dinsmore, Dr. Zerubbabel Endicott, Mr. Zacharias Zelley, Mr. John Wilson, and you, sir, also, Colonel Place Peabody. Gentlemen, the case shall be continued _in camera_. I beg of you few, however, to stay to the end. 3 _From Sundown to black Night the battle continues. The Witch is thrown to confusion. Justitia triumphans. Deus regnat._