Merry tells Rachel to clean up the blood and then burn the cloths she has used. Rachel tries to comfort Merry and then helps him to remove Beech's body to the tavern and cover it with sticks. She meets him after he has murdered Winchester. When Merry fears that Winchester will remember him and therefore must also die, Rachel offers to help Merry but he tells her to tend the tavern and await his return. She expresses her fear to Merry that Williams will reveal the crime. After Harry Williams has also discovered the crime, she pleads with him not to leave in order to avoid raising suspicion, but he refuses to stay. She laments the crime but promises Merry to keep it a secret. After seeing someone go upstairs in the tavern, Rachel follows and discovers the murder of Beech by Merry. Merry's sister in Yarington's Two Lamentable Tragedies. Mentioned by Moses as an example of God's mercy and guidance. Like Kyd's character, he is then murdered himself, the penalty for failing to preserve his mistress's honor.
He is fearful of being bound as part of the plan, saying he has seen the play of Pedringano (i.e.
He strangles Agar on Benwash's orders, and agrees to stab his master as part of the plot to make the murders look like the work of an intruder. Assists his master in murderous revenge for his wife's adultery. He is blamed for Agar's infidelity but points out that she has done her husband a favor: he no longer suffers from pointless jealousy (because she has provided grounds in reality for his paranoia). The watch on Agar is later relaxedwhile she is being unfaithful to her husband and his house burns, Rabshake brings news that the harbor is aflame with the destruction of every ship but Ward's own.
He soon realizes that he is powerless to outwit Agar's determination to take a lover. He is an anxious and incompetent guardian, given to bawdy chatter and gossip with his mistress and her sister Voada. Made guardian of Benwash's wife Agar, who is suspected of adultery. He compares Turks, Jews and Christians in a long comic analysis, then turns his wit to doctors and lawyers. He is witty and observant, part clown, part satirist.
Ruben Rabshake, servant to Benwash the Jewish merchant turned Turk in Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk. Mendacio claims he is three thousand years old and helped many writers and philosophers pen their lies.Ī mob of local rustics designated as "Rabble" in Heywood and Brome's The Late Lancashire Witches, this group performs a Skimmington ritual outside of the Seely household as a show of public protest against the disorder of the Seely family's social relations, and particularly the discord between the recently married servants Lawrence and Parnell.
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