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Matthew Hopkins Quotes:

  • Matthew Hopkins: Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

  • Matthew Hopkins: I will find out the truth for you, have no fear.

  • [Hopkins and his men throw three securely-bound people into the moat as a witchcraft test]

    Matthew Hopkins: They swim... the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang.

  • [a tied-up woman Hopkins has thrown into the moat to test for witchcraft drowns]

    Matthew Hopkins: She was innocent.

  • [Stearne eludes Marshall to warn the Witchfinder General]

    John Stearne: He's after our blood!

    Matthew Hopkins: You're forgetting our powers... he could be a witch.

  • [first lines]

    [United States Conqueror Worm versions]

    Matthew Hopkins: [voiceover] LO! 't is a gala night/Within the lonesome latter years./An angel throng, bewinged, bedight/In veils, and drowned in tears,/Sit in a theatre to see/A play of hopes and fears,/While the orchestra breathes fitfully/The music of the spheres."

  • [last lines]

    [United States Conqueror Worm versions]

    Matthew Hopkins: [voiceover] Out-out are the lights-out all!/And over each quivering form/The curtain, a funeral pall,/Comes down with the rush of a storm,/While the angels, all pallid and wan,/Uprising, unveiling, affirm/That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'/And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."

  • Matthew Hopkins: By the way, you know what they call me now?

    John Stearne: What?

    Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General.

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