C. Custance. Or else in sadnesse[?]

M. Mery. The more fond of you both! hardly ye[560] mater gesse[!]

Tristram. Lo how say ye dame?

M. Mery. Why do ye thinke dame Custance

That in this wowyng I have ment ought but pastance?

C. Custance.[561] Much things ye spake, I wote, to maintaine his dotage. 10

M. Mery. But well might ye judge I spake it all in mockage?[562]

For why? Is Roister Doister a fitte husband for you?

T. Trusty. I dare say ye never thought it.

M. Mery. No to God I vow.