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Nicholas Udall. Roister Doister
Roister Doister
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Dramatis Personæ
A brief Note of the Life, Works, and Times. of. NICHOLAS UDALL, M.A. Teacher, Dramatist, Translator, Preacher. In succession Master of Eton College, Rector of Braintree, Prebend of Windsor, Rector of Calborne, and Master of Westminster School * Probable or approximate dates
1485. Aug. 22. Henry VII. becomes king
1509. April 22. Henry VIII. begins to reign
1547. Jan. 28. Edward VI. ascends the throne
1553. July 6. Mary succeeds to the crown
ROISTER DOISTER
INTRODUCTION
¶ An example of soche doubtful writing, whiche by reason of. poincting maie haue double sense, and contrarie. meaning, taken out of an entrelude. made by Nicolas Vdal
Actus. iiij. Scæna. v. Bottom of the second, even-numbered page of folio 24, in the original edition
Top of the first, odd-numbered page of folio 25. Roister Doister
page image. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Roister Doister
The Prologue
FINIS
Roister Doister
Certaine Songs to be song by. those which shall vse this Comedie or Enterlude. The Seconde Song
The fourth Song
The Psalmodie
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A brief Note of the Life, Works, and Times. of. NICHOLAS UDALL, M.A. Teacher, Dramatist, Translator, Preacher. In succession Master of Eton College, Rector of Braintree, Prebend of Windsor, Rector of Calborne, and Master of Westminster School * Probable or approximate dates
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Nicholas Udall
Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College
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The first edition of the Rule of Reason, 1550–1, is a very scarce work; of which I have been unable to see a copy. The second edition, 1552, 8vo, ‘newely corrected by Thomas Wilson,’ has not the quotation: which apparently first appears in the third edition of 1553, 4to, the title of which runs, “The Rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logique. Sette furthe in Englishe, and newly corrected by Thomas Wilson. Anno Domini. M.D.LIII. Mense Ianuarij.”
At folio 66 of this edition, Wilson, in treating of The Ambiguitie, adds to his previous examples, Roister Doister’s letter, with the following heading:
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