In Act Four, although there are no lines spoken by any person condemned to die that day other than John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse, it stands to reason that both Mary Easty and Martha Corey are also going to be hanged that morning. When John is trying to decide whether or not to lie, confess, and save his own life or to continue to refuse to confess and die that day, he says to Elizabeth, "Let them that never lied die now to keep their souls."...
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