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: