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.