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

by Nicholas Udall

But thys day on Ralph Royster Doysters by hys leeue.

For truely of all men he is my chiefe banker

Both for meate and money, and my chiefe shootanker.

For, sooth Roister Doister in that he doth say,

And require what ye will ye shall haue no nay.

But now of Roister Doister somewhat to expresse,

That ye may esteeme him after hys worthinesse,

In these twentie townes and seke them throughout,

Is not the like stocke, whereon to graffe a loute.

All the day long is he facing and craking