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

by Nicholas Udall

For now haue I neede of the helpe of some wise man.

T. Trusty. Then may I be gone againe, for none such I [a]m.

Trupenie. Ye may bee by your going: for no Alderman

Can goe I dare say, a sadder pace than ye can.

C. Custance. Trupenie get thee in, thou shalt among them knowe,

How to vse thy selfe, like a propre man I trowe.

Trupeny. I go. Ex.

C. Custance. Now Tristram Trusty I thank you right much.

For at my first sending to come ye neuer grutch.

T. Trusty. Dame Custance God ye saue, and while my life shall last,