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

by Nicholas Udall

Here is the house I goe to, before or behinde?

I know not where nor when nor how I shal it finde.

If I had ten mens bodies and legs and strength,

This trotting that I haue must needes lame me at length.

And nowe that my maister is new set on wowyng,

I trust there shall none of vs finde lacke of doyng:

Two paire of shoes a day will nowe be too litle

To serue me, I must trotte to and fro so mickle.

Go beare me thys token, carrie me this letter,