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Lizzy Luke is the town midwife and has been
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START: Why? In truth?
Because she has been sentenced to hang on the word of a cuckolded husband. Because her mother Janet says she was not unaccounted for on the night in question but at Janet’s house, weeping and frightened with a bloody nose, a fact I learnt from the prison laundry maid, cos it was not admitted to the court.
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END: And if you cannot do that for her sake, think instead of the women who will be in this room when that comet comes round again, and how brittle they will think our spirits, how ashamed they will be, that we were given our own dominion and we made it look exactly like the one down there.
Lucy Kirkwood. The Welkin. NHB Modern Plays (electronic edition), 2020. p.90
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