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

by Nicholas Udall

M. Mumbl. And what shall I shewe hir your masterships name is?

R. Royster. Nay she shall make sute ere she know that ywis.

M. Mumbl. Yet let me somewhat knowe.

M. Mery. This is hee vnderstand,

That killed the blewe Spider in Blanchepouder lande.

M. Mumbl. Yea Iesus, William zee law, dyd he zo law?

M. Mery. Yea and the last Elephant that euer he sawe,

As the beast passed by, he start out of a buske,

And een with pure strength of armes pluckt out his great tuske.

M. Mumbl. Iesus, nomine patris, what a thing was that?