A plain damp room with many barrels of beer and wine.  The room is in need of a good cleaning as the floor is dirty and rats scurry about.
Storage room, Tavern
maid
rat
I am a rat I love to eat crumbs dropped on the floor. I love dark places and scurrying about the castle. The kitchen pantry has the best food.
Want me to put a few droppings in her cup of tea this morning? Awww, don't you go doin' tha'! She'll have me cleanin' 'er chimney for weeks on end! Ah, wouldn't it be worth it?  I'll tell you what, I could invite some of my kin from the village. I hear they got the plague going around.  That would teach her. Saints preserve our very skins! Don't ya know that we've got no other options fer queen? If she dies, we start over with that redheaded brat who plays dolls wif my good spoons! Well, we I can at least give her a good scare when she's having her fancy feast tomorrow.  I can't wait to see her face when all her guest see my fat caboose strolling across her dining table. Hahaha! Yer fat whut? Caboose, Hiney, butt, rat's end...  I plan on shaking it all down the table and might even leave some after dinner mints.   She's intolerable, but you are right better than the red head. Ya' know whut? Yer my kinda' rat. You only love me because I clean up the crumbs.  Speaking of, got anything good? There's some leftover cheese on the wheel. Help yerself, ma' friend. I'm going to need a little wine with my cheese, hope you don't mind.   You really are a terrible maid, but I don't think we could be friends if you weren't. Hey now. Don't get too cocky.