Please translate Hale's speech in Act IV of Arthur Miller's The Crucible for better understanding.Hale [continuing to Elizabeth]: Let you not...

In Arthur Miller's play, The
Crucible, Hale tells Elizabeth that he arrived in town with the best of
intentions, but those intentions have (in a manner of speaking) turned to dust. His
faith has been met with the shedding of blood—in other words, people have
died.

Hale insists that protecting life is the most sacred
of God's laws.

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Life, woman, life is God's most precious
gift...

He insists there is
no justification for the taking of a life, not even on principle, regardless of how
"glorious" it is. Hale begs Elizabeth to beg her husband to confess, hoping to save his
life. John Proctor has watched everything around him, the madness and the death, and has
even been force to sign a confession—that he refuses to give to the court. Proctor
cannot deal with lying in the confession, something he believes would
be truly evil.

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Proctor realizes that one’s name is
everything.

He knows others
will be forced to admit to what they have not done because of his confession, thus
destroying their names as well. John sees Rebecca Nurse, one of the
most decent women in the town, also accused of witchcraft. She will not admit to the lie
and is sentenced to death. Proctor changes his mind, tears up the confession, and
refuses to name anyone else—but for his noble deed, he is led off to
die.

Hale wants Elizabeth to get John to confess, even
though it is a lie. This lie, Hale believes, would be judged less harshly by God than
the sin of letting someone throw his life way, especially in that John has done nothing
but commit adultery. Hale knows that John will not be swayed by anything but Elizabeth's
words, and so he fervently asks her to intercede with her husband to save his life, but
she refuses. She believes that her husband's integrity is much greater than is the lie
of a sin he has not committed.

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[Proctor's] achievement is heralded by his wife,
who says to Hale: “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from
him!”

She would rather he die
on his terms than live on the terms of the lawmakers who would
force a man to lie to save himself, rather than tell the truth, only to
die.

Hale is devastated by her refusal, but certainly he is
destroyed by the entire process, seeing good, honest God-fearing people punished for
sins they have not committed. John and Rebecca Nurse are led off to be
killed.