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within, struggling: a dull stifled sound succeeds, and then a sudden silence.] There is mischief going on in that house.

Let me enter: I charge you within, whoever ye be, to open the door. No answer! (Knocks again.) Still no answer! Open the door, or it shall be forced open.

Ha, ha! what want ye, good Mr. Magistrate?

Some body has suffered violence in this house; open the door immediately.

And what would you have from the house that ye are so impatient to enter? There be corses enow in the churchyard, I trow; ye need not come here for them.

She is a mad woman, and has murdered somebody.

Mad, your honour! she's the witch we ha' been seeking in vain to apprehend, and the blackest, chiefest hag o' them a'.