Michael. As true as I report it to be true.
Shakebag. Then, Michael, this shall be your penance,
To feast us all at the Salutation,
Where we will plat our purpose thoroughly.
Greene. And, Michael, you shall bear no news of this tide,
Because they two may be in Rainham Down
Before your master.
Michael. Why, I’ll agree to anything you’ll have me,
So you will except of my company. [Exeunt.
III. iv. 18. ‘The country near Rainham seems in the sixteenth century to have been so open as to have entitled it to the appellation of a Down.’—Donne. The spot had a bad reputation.
III. iv. 25. The Salutation is an inn mentioned in Bartholomew Fair.
III. iv. 31. Except is probably the printer’s spelling of accept.
SCENE V
Arden’s House at Feversham.
Here enters Mosbie.