.. that if you be in an erroneous
way we may reduce you that so you may become a profitable member here
among us, otherwise if you be obstinate ... that then the court may take
such course that you may trouble us no further, therefore I would entreat
you ... whether you do not justify Mr. Wheelwright's sermon and the
petition.
_Mrs. H._ I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things
laid to my charge.
_Gov._ I have told you some already, and more I can tell you.
_Mrs. H._ Name one, sir.
_Gov._ Have I not named some already?
_Mrs. H._ What have I said or done?...
_Gov._ You have joined with them in the faction.
_Mrs. H._ In what faction have I joined with them?
_Gov._ In presenting the petition....
_Mrs. H._ But I had not my hand to the petition.
_Gov._ You have counselled them.
_Mrs. H._ Wherein?
_Gov._ Why, in entertaining them.
_Mrs. H._ What breach of law is that, sir?
_Gov._ Why, dishonoring of parents....
_Mrs. H._ I may put honor upon them as the children of God and as they do
honor the Lord.
_Gov._ We do not mean to discourse with those of your sex but only this;
you do adhere unto them, and do endeavor to set forward this faction, and
so you do dishonor us.
_Mrs. H._ I do acknowledge no such thing, neither do I think that I ever
put any dishonor upon you.
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