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M8 F3. A room. Period around 1400

Mendip, an embittered discharged soldier, demands to be hanged, claiming to have killed the rag-and-bone man and another, but no bodies are to found and the Mayor refuses — "the gallows are not a charitable institution". Jennet enters to seek the Mayor's protection, having been accused of witchcraft and of changing the rag-and-bone man into a dog. The Mayor, however, treats the absurd accusation seriously and arrests her. Eventually the "victim" turns up, alive and tipsy. Jennet is allowed to escape and Mendip goes with her.

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