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It was licensed and printed in 1566, and is the first English comedy. The "Miles Gloriosus" of Plautus appears to be its direct fore runner. The plot turns on the courtship of Dame Christian Custance [Con stance), a widow of repute and wealth as well as beauty, by the gull and coxcomb Ralph Roister Doister, whose suit is at once egged on and privately cro ed by the mischievous Matthew Merry greek, who plays at once parasite and rook to the hero. Although Custance has not the slightest intention of accepting Ralph, and at last resorts to actual violence, a isted by her maids, to get rid of him and his followers, the affair nearly breeds a serious quarrel between herself and her plighted lover, Gawin Good luck; but all ends merrily.