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Custance, a gay and rich widow, whom Ralph Roister Doister wishes to marry, but he is wholly baffled in his scheme.

The title of this comedy is Ralph Roister Doister, a name uncouth enough, and from which we should expect a very barbarous farce.

Roister Doister opens the moveable scenery of domestic life in the metropolis—touched with care, and warm with reality.

His very roistering became a pose, and his vanity made him roister the more, to make the pose more convincing.

It is interesting to compare him with Ralph Roister Doister.