V. i. 155. Cf. the concluding lines of Ovid’s Elegy, already alluded to, i. 60.

V. i. 338. ‘Cecily Pounders did help to bear the dead corpse out into a meadow there, commonly called the Amery Croft.’—Wardmote Book.

SCENE II

An obscure street in London.

Here enters Shakebag solus.

Shakebag. The widow Chambly in her husband’s days I kept;
And now he’s dead, she is grown so stout
She will not know her old companions.
I came thither, thinking to have had harbour
As I was wont,
And she was ready to thrust me out at doors;
But whether she would or no, I got me up,
And as she followed me, I spurned her down the stairs,
And broke her neck, and cut her tapster’s throat,
And now I am going to fling them in the Thames.
I have the gold; what care I though it be known!
I’ll cross the water and take sanctuary.

[Exit.

SCENE III

Arden’s House at Feversham.

Here enters the Mayor, Mosbie, Alice, Franklin, Michael, and Susan.