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

by Nicholas Udall

But what two men are yonde comming hitherwarde?

C. Custance. Now I shrew their best Christmasse chekes both togetherward.

[ Actus. iiij. Scæna. iij.]

Christian Custance. Sym Suresby. Ralph Roister. Mathew Merygreke. Trupeny.

C. Custance.

Hat meane these lewde felowes thus to trouble me stil?

Sym Suresby here perchance shal therof deme som yll,

And shall suspect in me some point of naughtinesse,

And they come hitherward.