He had to pass by the bar, and the barmaid and the potboy looked at him very hard.
"There's a young 'ooman has to do with that ere little game," said the potboy.
His prediction was quite accurate, for I had to tell him, after not many days, of the potboy who shot at the queen.
For a day or two he followed his adversary up and down the passages with cries of “potboy!”
So the housemaid keeps company with the potboy without consulting her own people.'
The unaccustomed visitor from the outside naturally assumed everybody to be prisonerslandlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy and all.
There were others who traced a friendship between the potboy at The Duchess and a son of one of the messengers.
Now I carried no sword; but seizing the tankard from the potboy's hand, I hurl'd it at the dog-fac'd trooper.
The potboy was insensible, and my eyes fell on Master Davenant, who slowly shook his head.
In the end I was sure the potboy's evidence would clear me, and therefore began to enjoy the fun.