[280] Cf. Pernet's:
Vous irayje signer la table?
Je scay bien le benedicite.
[281] S. Modwena, an Irish virgin, who died A.D. 518. She is said to have been the patroness of Burton-upon-Trent, and Henry VIII.'s commissioners sent thence to London "the image of seint Moodwyn with her red kowe and hir staff, which wymen labouryng of child in those parties were very desirous to have with them to lean upon."
[282] may I thrive.
[283] for my backer. Cf. R. D. IV. vii. 75, IV. viii. 45.
[284] worse.
Nicholas Udall
ROISTER DOISTER
Edited with Critical Essay and
Notes by Ewald Flügel, Ph.D.,
Professor in Stanford University