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

by Nicholas Udall

R. Royster.

Owe sirs, keepe your ray, and see your heartes be stoute,

But where be these caitifes, me think they dare not route,

How sayst thou Merygreeke? What doth Kit Custance say?

M. Mery. I am loth to tell you.

R. Royster. Tushe speake man, yea or nay?

M. Mery. Forsooth sir, I haue spoken for you all that I can.

But if ye winne hir, ye must een play the man,

Een to fight it out, ye must a mans heart take.