_Placebo dilexi_, Maister Roister Doister wil streight go home and die, Our Lorde Jesus Christ his soule have mercie upon. Thus you see to day a man, to morow[624] John.[625] Yet saving for a womans extreeme crueltie, 5 He might have lyved yet a moneth or two or three, But in spite of Custance which hath him weried, I ii. _b_ His mashyp shall be worshipfully buried. And while some piece of his soule is yet hym within, Some parte of his funeralls let us here beginne. 10 _Dirige._ He will go darklyng to his grave. _Neque lux, neque crux, nisi solum_ clinke,[626] Never gentman so went toward heaven I thinke.[627] Yet sirs as ye wyll the blisse of heaven win, When he commeth to the grave lay hym softly in, 15 And all men take heede by this one Gentleman, How you sette your love upon an unkinde woman: For these women be all suche madde pievish elves, They wyll not be woonne except it please them selves. But in faith Custance if ever ye come in hell, 20 Maister Roister Doister shall serve you as well. Good night Roger old knave, Farewel Roger olde knave. Good night Roger olde knave, knave, knap. _Nequando. Audiui vocem. Requiem æternam._ The Peale[628] of belles rong by the parish Clerk, _and Roister Doisters foure men_ THE FIRST BELL A TRIPLE.[629] When dyed he? When dyed he? THE SECONDE We have hym, We have hym. THE THIRDE Royster Doyster, Royster Doyster. THE FOURTH BELL He commeth, He commeth. THE GREATE BELL Our owne, Our owne. FINIS. FOOTNOTES: [328] Cf. Prol. to _Jack Juggler_. [329] Cf. the "lerned men" in the Prol. to the English _Andria_, circa 1520. [330] The northern plural. [331] To be the bell-wether, to excel. [332] Cf. Camden's _Proverbs_, p. 264; Ray's _Proverbs_, p. 132. [333] _Roger bon temps_: a mad rascal, a merry greek; _Gringalet_: a merry grig ... rogue, etc. (Cotgrave). [334] A. has 'know.' [335] See _Like well to Like_, Dodsley, 3: 337. [336] Cf. Robert the Ryfelar, etc., in _Pierce Plowman_; Peter Piebaker, etc., in _Thersytes_; Margery Mylkeducke, etc., in Skelton. [337] Cf. More's lines to Davy the dycer (_Works_, p. 1433ª.) [338] See Appendix _C_. [339] Cf. Ben Jonson's _New Inn_, II. ii. [340] Cf. Hankin boby in _Thersytes_; Handy-dandy in _P. Plowman_; Huddy-peke in _Four Elements_, in Skelton, etc.; _ib._ hoddy poule (= "dunder-head," Dyce). [341] "This ointment is even shot-anchor," Heywood's _Four PP_. (= last resort). [342] Cf. ll. 47, 49; for the whole scene cf. Plautus, _Miles Glor._ v. 31 _sqq._: _Et adsentandumst quicquid bic mentibitur_; also Ter. _Eunucbus_, II. ii, 252 _et seq._ [343] Cf. Palsgrave, 542: "I face as one dothe that brauleth." [344] boasting.