_Sim Sure._ Is there any man but I Sym Suresby alone, That would have taken such an enterprise him upon, In suche an outragious tempest as this was. Suche a daungerous gulfe of the sea to passe. F ii _b_ I thinke verily _Neptunes_ mightie godshyp, 5 Was angry with some that was in our shyp, And but for the honestie which in me he founde, I thinke for the others sake we had bene drownde. But fye on that servant which for his maisters wealth[537] Will sticke for to hazarde both his lyfe and his health. 10 My maister Gawyn Goodlucke after me a day Bicause of the weather, thought best hys shyppe to stay, And now that I have the rough sourges so well past, God graunt I may finde all things safe here at last. Then will I thinke all my travaile well spent. 15 Nowe the first poynt wherfore my maister hath me sent Is to salute dame Christian Custance his wife[538] Espoused: whome he tendreth no lesse than his life, I must see how it is with hir well or wrong, And whether for him she doth not now thinke long: 20 Then to other friendes I have a message or tway, And then so to returne and mete him on the way. Now wyll I goe knocke that I may dispatche with speede, But loe forth commeth hir selfe happily in deede. Actus iiii. Scæna ii. CHRISTIAN CUSTANCE. SIM. SURESBY. _C. Custance._ I come to see if any more stirryng be here, But what straunger is this, which doth to me appere? _Sym Surs._ I will speake to hir: Dame the lorde you save and see. _C. Custance._ What friende Sym Suresby? Forsoth right welcome ye be, Howe doth mine owne Gawyn Goodlucke, I pray the tell? 5 _S. Suresby._ When he knoweth of your health he will be perfect well. _C. Custance._ If he have perfect helth, I am as I would be. F iii _Sim. Sure._ Suche newes will please him well, this is as it should be. _C. Custance._ I thinke now long for him. _Sym Sure._ And he as long for you. 10 _C. Custance._ When wil he be at home? _Sym Sure._ His heart is here een now His body commeth after. _C. Custance._ I woulde see that faine. _Sim Sure._ As fast as wynde and sayle can cary it a maine. But what two men are yonde comming hitherwarde? _C. Custance._ Now I shrew their best Christmasse chekes[539] both togetherward. 14 Actus. iiii. Scæna. iii. CHRISTIAN CUSTANCE. SYM SURESBY. RALPH ROISTER. MATHEW MERYGREKE. TRUPENY.