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

by Nicholas Udall

M. Mery. Ah well I say.

C. Custance. It is Roister Doister doubtlesse.

M. Mery. Will ye neuer leaue this dissimulation?

Ye know hym not.

C. Custance. But by imagination,

For no man there is but a very dolt and loute

That to wowe a Widowe woulde so go about.

He shall neuer haue me hys wife while he doe liue.

M. Mery. Then will he haue you if he may, so mote I thriue,

And he biddeth you sende him worde by me,