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Ralph Roister Doister

Nicholas Udall

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Ralph Roister Doister | Nicholas Udall

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>M. Mery. That knewe I ryght well when I made offer so large.

But it is no suche matter.

A handwritten note in the margin gives the previous half-line to “R. Royster”. This is probably correct.

M. Mery. What is it than?

Are ye in daunger of debte to any man?

If ye be, take no thought nor be not afraide,

Let them hardly take thought how they shall be paide.

R. Royster. Tut I owe nought.

M. Mery. What then? fear ye imprisonment?

R. Royster. No.

M. Mery. No I wist ye offende, not so to be shent.

But if he had, the Toure coulde not you so holde,

But to breake out at all times ye would be bolde.

What is it? hath any man threatned you to beate?

R. Royster. What is he that durst haue put me in that heate?

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He that beateth me by his armes shall well fynde,

That I will not be farre from him nor runne behinde.

M. Mery. That thing knowe all men euer since ye ouerthrewe,

The fellow of the Lion which Hercules slewe.

But what is it than?

R. Royster. Of loue I make my mone.

M. Mery. Ah this foolishe a loue, wilt neare let vs alone?

But bicause ye were refused the last day,

Ye sayd ye woulde nere more be intangled that way.

I woulde medle no more, since I fynde all so vnkinde.

Richard 12/14/2023
Some of this translates to modern sensibilities and tastes, and some of the language is decently accessible, but most of this only works for someone who has mid-16th-century jargon down and finds certain kinds of joking funny.

I was not the right audience.

Having said that, there is some clever stuff
Roaa 01/18/2017
Funny but confusing?
I like how the female characters are portrayed as smarter and stronger somehow during that age!!
Richard 11/21/2013
Said to be a farce and the first English comedy, though no one has ever found it amusing. I do not remember any of my professors mentioning that the author had been convicted under the Buggery Act of offenses against his students. He was sentenced to the Marshalsea, sometime home to Ben Jonson, John
Christopher 04/01/2012
I thought this play was pretty good. I'm reading through a collection of Elizabethan and Stuart drama and this is the first in the bunch. It was a little hard to get into because the entire play is in rhymed couplets, but once I got used to the rhythm enough to forget about it was pretty entertainin

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