_Pe._ Welcome, good Captain Seagull, and worthy gentlemen. If you will meet my friend Frank here, and me, at the Blue Anchor Tavern by Billingsgate this evening, we will there drink to our happy voyage, be merry, and take boat to our ship with all expedition. _Sp._ Defer it no longer, I beseech you, sir; but as your voyage is hitherto carried closely, and in another knight's name, so for your own safety and ours, let it be continued: our meeting and speedy purpose of departing known to as few as is possible, lest your ship and goods be attached. 60 _Qu._ Well advised, captain; our colonel shall have money this morning to despatch all our departures; bring those gentlemen at night to the place appointed, and, with our skins full of vintage, we'll take occasion by the vantage,[54] and away. _Sp._ We will not fail, but be there, sir. _Pe._ Good morrow, good captain, and my worthy associates. Health and all sovereignty to my beautiful gossip; for you, sir, we shall see you presently with the writings. 70 _Sec._ With writings and crowns to my honourable gossip. I do hunger and thirst to do you good, sir. [_Exeunt._ [53] Wife. [54] Collier compares Nashe's _Summer's Last Will_, &c.:--"Our vintage was a vintage, for it did not work upon the advantage." SCENE II. _An inn-yard._ _Enter a_ Coachman _in haste, in his frock, feeding_. _Co._ Here's a stir when citizens ride out of town, indeed as if all the house were a-fire! 'Slight! they will not give a man leave to eat's breakfast afore he rises. _Enter_ HAMLET, _a footman, in haste_. _Ha._ What, coachman--my lady's coach! for shame! her ladyship's ready to come down. _Enter_ POTKIN, _a tankard-bearer_. _Po._ 'Sfoot! Hamlet, are you mad?[55] Whither run you now? you should brush up my old mistress! _Enter_ SINDEFY. _Si._ What, Potkin?--you must put off your tankard and put on your blue coat,[56] and wait upon Mistress Touchstone into the country. [_Exit._ _Po._ I will, forsooth, presently. [_Exit._ _Enter_ Mistress FOND _and_ Mistress GAZER. _Fo._ Come, sweet Mistress Gazer, let's watch here, and see my Lady Flash take coach. 13 _Ga._ O' my word here's a most fine place to stand in; did you see the new ship launched last day, Mistress Fond? _Fo._ O God! and we citizens should lose such a sight! _Ga._ I warrant here will be double as many people to see her take coach as there were to see it take water.