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

by Nicholas Udall

If ye haue the grace now to offer your self, ye speede.

C. Custance. As muche as though I did, this time it shall not neede,

But what gentman is it, I pray you tell me plaine, That woweth so finely?

M. Mery. Lo where ye be againe,

As though ye knewe him not.

C. Custance. Tush ye speake in iest.

M. Mery. Nay sure, the partie is in good knacking earnest,

And haue you he will (he sayth) and haue you he must.

C. Custance. I am promised duryng my life, that is iust.

M. Mery. Mary so thinketh he, vnto him alone.