_Trupeny_ [_enters with Trusty, whom he leaves behind_]. Ye are a slow goer sir, I make God avow. My mistresse Custance will in me put all the blame. Your leggs be longer than myne: come apace for shame. _C. Custance._ I can[554] thee thanke Trupenie, thou hast done right wele. _Trupeny._ Maistresse since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele, 10 But maister Tristram Trustie here maketh no speede. _C. Custance._ That he came at all I thanke him in very deede, For now have I neede of the helpe of some wise man. _T. Trusty._ Then may I be gone againe, for none such I [a]m. _Trupenie._ Ye may bee by your going: for no Alderman 15 Can goe I dare say, a sadder pace than ye can. _C. Custance._ Trupenie get thee in, thou shalt among them knowe, How to use thy selfe, like a propre man I trowe. _Trupeny._ I go. [_Ex._] _C. Custance._ Now Tristram Trusty I thank you right much. For at my first sending to come ye never grutch. 20 _T. Trusty._ Dame Custance God ye saue, and while my life shall last, For my friende Goodlucks sake ye shall not sende in wast. _C. Custance._ He shal give you thanks. _T. Trusty._ I will do much for his sake[!] _C. Custance._ But alack, I feare, great displeasure shall be take. _T. Trusty._ Wherfore? 25 _C. Custance._ For a foolish matter. _T. Trusty._ What is your cause[?] _C. Custance._ I am yll accombred with a couple of dawes. _T. Trusty._ Nay weepe not woman: but tell me what your cause is G ii As concerning my friende is any thing amisse? _C. Custance._ No not on my part: but here was Sym Suresby[--] _T. Trustie._ He was with me and told me so. 30 _C. Custance._ And he stoode by While Ralph Roister Doister with helpe of Merygreeke, For promise of mariage dyd unto me seeke.[555] _T. Trusty._ And had ye made any promise before them twaine[?] _C. Custance._ No I had rather be torne in pieces and flaine, No man hath my faith and trouth, but Gawyn Goodlucke, 35 And that before Suresby dyd I say, and there stucke, But of certaine letters there were suche words spoken. _T. Trustie._ He tolde me that too. _C. Custance._ And of a ring and token. That Suresby I spied, dyd more than halfe suspect, That I my faith to Gawyn Goodlucke dyd reiect. 40 _T. Trusty._ But there was no such matter dame Custance in deede? _C. Custance._ If ever my head thought it, God sende me yll speede. Wherfore I beseech you, with me to be a witnesse, That in all my lyfe I never intended thing lesse, And what a brainsicke foole Ralph Roister Doister is, 45 Your selfe know well enough. _T. Trusty._ Ye say full true ywis.