Sir, I pray you what lord or great gentleman is this?

Master Ralph Roister Doister, dame (say I), i-wis.

O Lord (saith she then), what a goodly man it is!

Would Christ I had such a husband as he is!

O Lord (say some), that the sight of his face we lack!

It is enough for you (say I) to see his back;

His face is for ladies of high and noble parages,[58]

With whom he hardly 'scapeth great marriages.

With much more than this and much otherwise.

R. Roister. I can thee thank,[59] that thou canst such answers devise: