Moll Hackabout is greeted by the brothel landlady Mother Needham. The scene takes place in the courtyard of the Bell Inn, where a carriage has stopped. Moll, in country dress, carries a pincushion and scissors and stands with her luggage, including a dead goose in a basket she has brought as a gift. A clergyman sits on a horse and does not notice the encounter that follows. Mother Needham has noticeable beauty marks on her face, probably make-up to hide an illness, 1732, Eng