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

by Nicholas Udall

Pipe Mery Annot. etc.

Trilla. Trilla. Trillarie.

When Tibet, when Annot, when Margerie.

I will not, I can not, no more can I. Lette hir caste downe hir vvorke.

Then giue we all ouer, and there let it lye.

Tib. Talk. There it lieth, the worste is but a curried cote,

Tut I am vsed therto, I care not a grote.

An. Alyface. Haue we done singyng since? then will I in againe,

Here I founde you, and here I leaue both twaine. Exeat.

M. Mumbl. And I will not be long after: Tib Talke apace.