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Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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Who goes with us?

ALL.
I! I! And I!

SARAH.
I'll bide with my gran'am.

[Exeunt all the others, save Resolute, Sarah, and Goody Gleason. There
is a pause of a moment or so. Sarah, seated on the ground by Goody
Gleason, looks curiously at Resolute. Resolute stares straight in front
of her.

SARAH
(rising, and bringing Resolute her spinning-stool).
Best to be seated, Mistress. You'll be a long time standing. What! Not
even a word of thanks from a model of worshipful manners? It must be a
sad thing not to be able to use one's tongue, Mistress Resolute.
Indeed, I pity you!

RESOLUTE.
Such words as I could speak would fall full strangely on Merrymount
ears.

SARAH.
I doubt it not. We are not given to canting here at Merrymount.

RESOLUTE.
I might give you such answer as those words deserve, did I not know
that they are the words of one who lives in sin and ignorance.
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