SOURCE: Pittenger, Elizabeth. “‘To Serve the Queere’: Nicholas Udall, Master of Revels.” In Queering the Renaissance, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, pp. 162-89. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

In the following essay, Pittenger examines material connected with Udall and attempts to gain insight into his suspected relationships with his pupils.

Thence for my voice, I must (no choice) Away of forse, like posting horse, For sundrie men, had plagards then,           such childe to take: The better brest, the lesser rest, To serve the Queere, now there now heere, For time so spent, I may repent,           and sorrow make.                               … From Paules I went, to Eaton sent, To learne streight waies, the latin phraies, Where fiftie three, stripes given to mee,           at once I had: For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pas, thus beat I was, See Udall see, the mercie of thee,           to me poore lad...