Roister Doister / Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College

by Nicholas Udall

[The Prologue.]

Hat Creature is in health, eyther yong or olde,

But som mirth with modestie wil be glad to vse

As we in thys Enterlude shall now vnfolde,

Wherin all scurilitie we vtterly refuse,

Auoiding such mirth wherin is abuse:

Knowing nothing more comendable for a mans recreation

Than Mirth which is vsed in an honest fashion:

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health.