Speaker 1: Every man a moral ply otherwise called a treasures. How
Speaker 1: the high Father of Heaven sendeth death to summon every
Speaker 1: creature to come and give account of their lives in
Speaker 1: this world. Translated from the Dutch ply alkalook. I pray
Speaker 1: you all give your audience and hid this matter with reverence.
Speaker 1: The figure moral play the summoning of every man called
Speaker 1: it is that of our lives, and ending shows her
Speaker 1: transitory be all day. This matter is wondrous, precious, but
Speaker 1: the intent of it is more gracious and sweet to
Speaker 1: be away. The story says man in the beginning, look
Speaker 1: well and take good heat to the ending beyond.
Speaker 2: Never so gay he thinks thin in the beginning full suite,
Speaker 2: which in the end causes her soul to weep. When
Speaker 2: the body lies in lay, Here shall you see her
Speaker 2: fellowship and both strengths pleasure and beauty will faith from
Speaker 2: tears the flower may. For ye shall hear how our
Speaker 2: heaving King calleth every man to a general reckoning, Give
Speaker 2: audience and hear what it does. Say.
Speaker 3: I perceive here, in my majesty, how that all creatures
Speaker 3: be to me unkind, living without dread, and worthy prosperity
Speaker 3: of ghostly sight. The people be so blind, drowned in sin,
Speaker 3: they know me not, for their God in worldly riches
Speaker 3: is all their mind. They fear not my right wiseness,
Speaker 3: the sharp rod, my law that I should when I
Speaker 3: for them died, they forget clean and shedding of my
Speaker 3: blood red I hanged between two. It cannot be denied.
Speaker 3: To get them life I suffered to be dead. I
Speaker 3: healed their feet with thorns. Hurts my head. I could
Speaker 3: do no more than I did, truly, And now I
Speaker 3: see the people do clean forsake me. They use the
Speaker 3: seven deadly sins, damnable as pride, coveties, wrath, and letchery
Speaker 3: now in the world be made commendable. And thus they
Speaker 3: leave of angels the heavenly company. Every man liveth so
Speaker 3: after his own pleasure, and yet of their life they
Speaker 3: be nothing. Sure I see the more that I them forbear,
Speaker 3: the worse they be. From year to year, all that
Speaker 3: liveth appeareth fast. Therefore I will, in all the haste
Speaker 3: have a reckoning of every man's person. For and I
Speaker 3: leave the people thus alone in their life and wicked tempests.
Speaker 3: Verily they will become much worse than beasts. For now
Speaker 3: one would by envy another upeat charity. They all do
Speaker 3: clean forget. I hoped well that every man in my
Speaker 3: glory would make his mansion, and there too I had
Speaker 3: them all elect. But now I see, like traitors deject
Speaker 3: they thank me not for the pleasure that I to
Speaker 3: them meant, nor yet for their being that I them
Speaker 3: have lent. I proffered the people great multitude of mercy,
Speaker 3: and few there be that asketh it heartily. They be
Speaker 3: so cumbered with worldly riches that needs on them. I
Speaker 3: must do justice on every man living without fear. Where
Speaker 3: art thou death, Thou mighty Messenger.
Speaker 4: Almighty God, I am here at your will, your commandment
Speaker 4: to fulfill.
Speaker 3: Go thou to every man and show him in my
Speaker 3: name a pilgrimage he must on him take, which he
Speaker 3: in no wise may escape, and that he bring with
Speaker 3: him a sure reckoning, without delay or any tarrying.
Speaker 4: Lord, I will in the world go run over all
Speaker 4: and cruelly out search both great and small. Every man.
Speaker 4: Will I beset that liveth beastly out of God's laws
Speaker 4: and dreadeth not folly He that loveth riches. I will
Speaker 4: strike with my dart his sight to blind and from
Speaker 4: heaven to depart, except that alms be his good friend
Speaker 4: in hell, for to dwell world without end lo yonder.
Speaker 4: I see every man walking full little he thinketh on
Speaker 4: my coming. His mind is on fleshly lusts and his
Speaker 4: treasure and great pain it shall cause him to endure
Speaker 4: before the Lord heaven King. Every man stands still. Whither
Speaker 4: art thou going?
Speaker 5: Thus?
Speaker 4: Gaily est thou, thy maker?
Speaker 6: Forget?
Speaker 7: Why asks thou wouldst thou wit?
Speaker 4: Yea, sir, I will show you in great haste. I
Speaker 4: am sent to THEE from God out of his majesty.
Speaker 7: What sent to me?
Speaker 5: Yea?
Speaker 4: Certainly, though thou have forget him here he thinketh on
Speaker 4: THEE in the heavenly sphere. As or we depart, Thou
Speaker 4: shalt know.
Speaker 7: What desireth God of me?
Speaker 4: That shall I show THEE a reckoning? He will needs
Speaker 4: have without any longer respite.
Speaker 7: To give a reckoning longer leisure. I crave this blind
Speaker 7: matter troubleth my.
Speaker 4: Wit on THEE. Thou must take a long journey. Therefore
Speaker 4: thy book of count with THEE thou bring for turn
Speaker 4: again Thou cannot by no way, and look thou be
Speaker 4: sure of thy reckoning, For before God thou shalt answer
Speaker 4: and show thy many bad deeds and good but a few.
Speaker 4: How thou hast spent thy life? And in what wise
Speaker 4: before the chief Lord of Paradise have ado that we
Speaker 4: were in that way? For weet thou well, thou shalt
Speaker 4: none make attorney.
Speaker 7: Full on Ready, I am such reckoning to give. I
Speaker 7: know THEE, not what messenger art thou.
Speaker 4: I am death, that no man dreadeth. For every man
Speaker 4: I rest, and no man spareth. For it is God's
Speaker 4: commandment that all to me should be obedient.
Speaker 7: O death, thou comest when I have the least in mind,
Speaker 7: in thy power it lieth me to save. Yet, if
Speaker 7: my good will I give THEE, if you will be
Speaker 7: kind yea a thousand pounds, shalt thou have and defer
Speaker 7: this matter till another day.
Speaker 4: Every man, it may not be by no way. I set,
Speaker 4: not by gold, silver, nor riches, knee, by pope, Emperor, king, duke,
Speaker 4: ni princes. Fore end I would receive gifts great all
Speaker 4: the world I might get, But my custom is clean. Contrary,
Speaker 4: I give THEE no respite it come hence and not terry.
Speaker 7: Alas shall I have no longer respite? I may say death,
Speaker 7: giveth no warning to think on THEE. It maketh my
Speaker 7: heart sick. For all I'm ready is my book of reckoning.
Speaker 7: But twelve year and I might have abiding my counting book.
Speaker 7: I would make so clear that my reckoning I should
Speaker 7: not need to fear. Wherefore death, I pray THEE for
Speaker 7: God's mercy spare me till I be provided of remedy.
Speaker 4: THEE availeth not to cry, weep and pray, but haste
Speaker 4: THEE lightly that you were gone the journey and prove
Speaker 4: thy friends. If thou can for weet thou well THEE
Speaker 4: tide abideth no man, and in the world each living
Speaker 4: creature for Adam's sin must die of nature.
Speaker 7: Death. If I should this pilgrimage take and my reckoning,
Speaker 7: surely make show me for Saint charity. Should I not
Speaker 7: come again shortly.
Speaker 4: No, every man, an thou be once there, Thou mayst
Speaker 4: never more come here.
Speaker 7: Trust me verily, Oh gracious God in the high seat celestial,
Speaker 7: have mercy on me in this most need. Shall I
Speaker 7: have no company from this veiled terrestrial of mine acquaintance
Speaker 7: that weigh me to lead?
Speaker 4: Yeay, if any be so hearty that would go with
Speaker 4: THEE and bear THEE company. Hi, THEE, that you were
Speaker 4: gone to God's magnificence, thy reckoning to give before His presence.
Speaker 4: What weenest thou thy life is given THEE and thy
Speaker 4: worldly goods.
Speaker 7: Also I had wen so verily.
Speaker 4: Nay, nay it was but lent THEE. For as soon
Speaker 4: as thou art go another a while shall have it,
Speaker 4: and then go therefro. Even as thou hast done, ry man,
Speaker 4: thou art mad, Thou hast thy wits five and here
Speaker 4: on earth will not amend thy life. For suddenly I
Speaker 4: do come.
Speaker 7: O, wretched kate, if whither shall I flee that I
Speaker 7: might escape this endless sorrow. Now, gentle death, spare me
Speaker 7: till tomorrow that I may amend me with good advisement.
Speaker 4: Nay thereto, I will not consent, nor no man will
Speaker 4: I resp it. But to the heart. Suddenly I shall
Speaker 4: smite without any advisement. And now out of thy sight
Speaker 4: I will thee high see thou make THEE ready shortly,
Speaker 4: for thou mayst say this is the day that no
Speaker 4: man living may escape away.
Speaker 7: Hollas I may well weep with sighs deep. I have
Speaker 7: no manner of company to help me in my journey
Speaker 7: and me to keep and also my writing is full
Speaker 7: unready How shall I do now? For to excuse me,
Speaker 7: I would to God I had never beget to my
Speaker 7: soul a full great profit it had been. For now
Speaker 7: I fear pains, huge and great. The time passeth, Lord,
Speaker 7: help that all wrought. For though I mourn it, availeth
Speaker 7: not the day passeth. And as almost to go, I
Speaker 7: WoT not well what for to do? To whom were
Speaker 7: I best my complaint to make hum What am I
Speaker 7: to fellowship? Thereof spake and showed him of this sudden chance,
Speaker 7: For in him is all mine. Affiance. We have in
Speaker 7: the world so many a day, been good friends and
Speaker 7: sport and play. I see him yonder certainly I trust
Speaker 7: that he will bear me company. Therefore to him, will
Speaker 7: I speak to ease my sorrow? Well met, good fellowship,
Speaker 7: and good.
Speaker 4: Morrow, every man?
Speaker 8: Good morrow? By this day, sir? Why lookest thou so piteously?
Speaker 8: If anything be amiss? I pray thee me say that
Speaker 8: I may help to remedy.
Speaker 7: Yea good fellowship. YEA, I am in great jeopardy.
Speaker 8: My true friend, Show to me your mind. I will
Speaker 8: not forsake thee unto my life's end in the way
Speaker 8: of good company.
Speaker 7: That was well spoken and lovingly.
Speaker 8: Sir, I must needs know your heaviness. I have pity
Speaker 8: to see you in any distress. If any have you wronged,
Speaker 8: ye shall revenge me, though I on the ground be
Speaker 8: slain for THEE. Though that I know before that I
Speaker 8: should die.
Speaker 7: Fairly, fellowship, grow mercy.
Speaker 8: Tush by thy thanks. I set not a straw. Show
Speaker 8: me your grief and say no more.
Speaker 7: If I my heart should to you break, and then
Speaker 7: you to turn your mind from me, and would not
Speaker 7: me comfort when you hear me speak, then should I
Speaker 7: ten times sorrier be?
Speaker 8: Sir? I say as I will do.
Speaker 7: Indeed, then be you a good friend at need? I
Speaker 7: have found you true here before.
Speaker 8: And so ye shall evermore, for in faith, and thou
Speaker 8: go to Hell, I will not forsake thee. By the
Speaker 8: way you.
Speaker 7: Speak like a good friend, I believe you well. I
Speaker 7: shall deserve it, and I may.
Speaker 8: I speak of no deserving by this day, for he
Speaker 8: that will say and nothing do is not worthy with
Speaker 8: good company to go. Therefore, show me the grief of
Speaker 8: your mind. As to your friend, most loving and kind, I.
Speaker 7: Shall show you how it is command that I am
Speaker 7: to go a journey a long way, hard and dangerous,
Speaker 7: and give a straight count without delay before for the
Speaker 7: High Judge, I don't I. Wherefore I pray you bear
Speaker 7: me company as you have promised in this journey.
Speaker 8: That is matter. Indeed, promise is duty. But and I
Speaker 8: should take such a voyage on me, I know it well,
Speaker 8: it should be to my pain. Also it make me
Speaker 8: a feared certain But let us take counsel here as
Speaker 8: well as we can. For your words would fear a
Speaker 8: strong man.
Speaker 7: Well, you said, if I had need, you would mean
Speaker 7: never forsake quick nor dead, though it were to hell.
Speaker 8: Truly so I said, certainly, But such pleasures be set aside.
Speaker 8: These sooth to say. And also if we took such
Speaker 8: a journey, when should we come again?
Speaker 7: Nay, never again till the day of doom?
Speaker 8: In faith? Then will not I come there? Who hath
Speaker 8: you these tidings brought?
Speaker 7: Indeed, death was with me here.
Speaker 8: Now by God that i'll hath bought. If death were
Speaker 8: the messenger for no man that is living today, I
Speaker 8: will not go that loath journey, not for the father
Speaker 8: that begat me.
Speaker 7: Yeah promised.
Speaker 8: Otherwise, Pardie I WoT well, I say so truly. And
Speaker 8: yet if thou wilt eat and drink and make good
Speaker 8: cheer or haunt to women the lusty company, I would
Speaker 8: not forsake you. While the day is clear. Trust me verily.
Speaker 7: Yay, there too you would be ready to go to mirth,
Speaker 7: solace and play. Your mind will sooner apply than to
Speaker 7: bear me company in my long journey.
Speaker 8: Now, in good faith, I will not that way. But
Speaker 8: then thou wilt murder or any man kill in that
Speaker 8: I will help THEE with a good will.
Speaker 7: Oh, that is a simple advice. Indeed, gentle fellow, help
Speaker 7: me in my necessity. We have loved long and now
Speaker 7: I need. And now, gentle fellowship.
Speaker 8: Whether ye have loved me or no, by Saint John,
Speaker 8: I will not with THEE go.
Speaker 7: Yet I pray THEE take the labor and do so
Speaker 7: much for me to bring me forward for saint charity
Speaker 7: and comfort me till I come without the town.
Speaker 8: Nay, and thou would give me a new gown. I
Speaker 8: will not afoot with THEE go. But and you had tarried,
Speaker 8: I would not have left THEE. So and as now
Speaker 8: god speed THEE in thy journey. For from THEE I
Speaker 8: will depart as fast as I may.
Speaker 7: Whither away, Fellowship, will you forsake me?
Speaker 8: Yay, by my fay to God, I betake thee.
Speaker 7: Farewell, good fellowship, For this my heart is sore. Adieu
Speaker 7: forever I shall see thee no more.
Speaker 8: In faith, every man, farewell now at the end for you,
Speaker 8: I will remember that parting is mourning.
Speaker 5: A lock.
Speaker 7: Shall we thus depart? Indeed, our lady help without any
Speaker 7: more comfort? Low fellowship forsaketh me in my most need
Speaker 7: for help in this world? Whither shall I resort? Fellowship? Here?
Speaker 7: Before with me would marry make? And now little sorrow
Speaker 7: for me doth he take? It is said, and prosperity men,
Speaker 7: friends may find, which in adversity be full unkind Now
Speaker 7: whither for succor shall I flee? So that that fellowship
Speaker 7: hath forsaken me? To my kinsmen, I will truly praying
Speaker 7: them to help me in my necessity. I believe that
Speaker 7: they will do so. For kind will creep where it
Speaker 7: may not go. I will go, say, for yonder I
Speaker 7: see them go? Where be ye? Now, my friends and kinsmen.
Speaker 6: Here be we now at your commandment, Cousin, I pray
Speaker 6: you show us your intent in any wise and not spare.
Speaker 9: Yeah, every man, and to us to if yet is
Speaker 9: susposed to any whither or weat you well, we will
Speaker 9: live and die together.
Speaker 6: In wealth and woe. We will with you hold for
Speaker 6: over his kin a man may be bold.
Speaker 7: Commercy, my friends and kinsmankind. Now shall I show you
Speaker 7: the grief of my mind? I was commanded by a messenger,
Speaker 7: that is in high King's chief officer. He bade me
Speaker 7: go a pilgrimage to my pain, and I know well
Speaker 7: I shall never come again. Also I must give a
Speaker 7: reckoning straight, for I have a great enemy that hath
Speaker 7: me in weight, which intendeth me for to hinder.
Speaker 6: What account is that which he must render? That would
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 7: Of all my works? I must show how I have
Speaker 7: lived and my days spent, also of ill deeds that
Speaker 7: I have used in my time since life was me lent,
Speaker 7: and of all virtues that I have refused. Therefore I
Speaker 7: pray you go thither with me to help to make
Speaker 7: mine account for Saint charity.
Speaker 9: What to go thither? Is that the matter? Nay, every man,
Speaker 9: I had liver, fast, bread and water all this five year, and.
Speaker 7: More alas that ever I was boor for now, shall
Speaker 7: I never be merry if that you forsake me?
Speaker 6: Ah, sir, what he be a merry man? Take good
Speaker 6: heart to you and make no moan. But one thing
Speaker 6: I warn you, by Saint Anne, as for me, he
Speaker 6: shall go alone, my cousin, Will you not with me?
Speaker 9: Go no, by our lady, I have the cramp in
Speaker 9: my toe. Trust not to me, for so god me speed.
Speaker 9: I will deceive you in your most need.
Speaker 6: It availeth not us to tice. He shall have my
Speaker 6: maid with all my heart. She loveth to go to
Speaker 6: feasts there, to be nice, and to dance, and abroad
Speaker 6: to start. I will give her leave to help you
Speaker 6: in that journey, if that you and she may agree.
Speaker 7: Now show me the very effect of your mind. Will
Speaker 7: you go with me? Or abide behind?
Speaker 6: Abide behind? Yea that I will, And I may therefore
Speaker 6: farewell until another day?
Speaker 7: How should I be merry or glad? For fair promises
Speaker 7: to me make? But when I have most need they
Speaker 7: me forsake. I am deceived. That maketh me sad.
Speaker 9: Cousin, every man, farewell now, for verily I will not
Speaker 9: go with you. Also of my own and unready reckoning,
Speaker 9: I have to account. Therefore I make tarrying. Now God
Speaker 9: keep thee for now I go.
Speaker 7: Jesus is all come here too? Lo fair words maketh
Speaker 7: fools fame they promise, and nothing will do certain My
Speaker 7: kinsman promised me faithfully for to abide with me steadfastly,
Speaker 7: and now fast away do they flee? Even so fellowship
Speaker 7: promised me what friend were best me of to provide?
Speaker 7: I lose my time here longer to abide. Yet in
Speaker 7: my mind a thing there is all my life. I
Speaker 7: have loved riches. If that my good now helped me,
Speaker 7: might he would make my heart full light? I will
Speaker 7: speak to him in this distress. Where art thou my
Speaker 7: goods and riches?
Speaker 10: Who calleth me? Every man? What haste thou hast? I
Speaker 10: lie here in corners trust and piled so high, and
Speaker 10: in chests I am locked so fast, also sacked in
Speaker 10: bags Thou mayest see with thine eye I cannot stir
Speaker 10: in packs? Lo I lie? What would ye have lightly me?
Speaker 11: Say?
Speaker 7: Come hither good? In all the haste thou may for
Speaker 7: of counsel, I must desire thee.
Speaker 10: Sir, and ye in the world have trouble or adversity,
Speaker 10: that can I help you to remedy shortly.
Speaker 7: It is another disease that grieveth me in this world.
Speaker 7: It is not, I tell THEE. So I am sent
Speaker 7: for another way to go, to give a straight account
Speaker 7: general before the highest Jupiter of all and all my life,
Speaker 7: I have had joy and pleasure in THEE. Therefore I
Speaker 7: pray THEE go with me for peradventure. Thou mayst before
Speaker 7: God Almighty my reckoning, help to clean and purify. For
Speaker 7: it is said, ever among that money maketh all right,
Speaker 7: that is wrong.
Speaker 10: Nay, every man, I sing another song. I follow no
Speaker 10: man in such voyages. For and I went with THEE.
Speaker 10: Thou shouldst fare much the worse for me. For because
Speaker 10: on me thou didst set thy mind thy reckoning, I
Speaker 10: have made blotted and blind. That thine account thou cannot
Speaker 10: make truly, And that hast thou for the.
Speaker 7: Love of me, that would grieve me full sore when
Speaker 7: I should come to that fearful answer. Up, let us
Speaker 7: go thither together.
Speaker 10: Nay, not, so I am too brittle, I may not endure.
Speaker 10: I will follow no man one foot.
Speaker 7: Be ye sure, alas I have THEE loved and had
Speaker 7: great pleasure all my life days on good and treasure,
Speaker 7: that is.
Speaker 10: To thy damnation without leasing, for my love is contrary
Speaker 10: to the love everlasting. But if thou had me loved
Speaker 10: moderately during as to the poor give part of me,
Speaker 10: then shouldst thou not in this dolor be nor in
Speaker 10: this great sorrow and care?
Speaker 7: Lo Now was I deceived or I was ware? And
Speaker 7: all I may wait my spending of time?
Speaker 10: What weenest thou that I am thine I had wean soul? Nay,
Speaker 10: every man, I say no, as for a while I
Speaker 10: was lent THEE a season, Thou hast had me in prosperity.
Speaker 10: My condition is man's soul to kill. If I save
Speaker 10: one a thousand, I do spill. Weenest thou that I
Speaker 10: will follow THEE nay from this world, not verily.
Speaker 7: I had waned otherwise.
Speaker 10: Therefore to thy soul good is a thief. For when
Speaker 10: thou art dead, this is my guise another to deceive
Speaker 10: in the same wise as I have done THEE and
Speaker 10: all to his soul's reprieve.
Speaker 7: O false good courseer thou be thou traitor to God
Speaker 7: that has deceived me and caught me in thy snare.
Speaker 10: Marry thou brought thyself in care whereof I am glad,
Speaker 10: I must needs laugh. I cannot be sad.
Speaker 7: Ah good thou hast had long my heartly love. I
Speaker 7: gave THEE that which should be the lords above. But
Speaker 7: wilt thou not go with me? Indeed, I pray THEE
Speaker 7: truth to say no, So.
Speaker 10: God me speed. Therefore, farewell and have good day?
Speaker 7: Oh to whom shall I make my moan for to
Speaker 7: go with me in that heavy journey? First fellowship said
Speaker 7: he would with me gon His words were very pleasant
Speaker 7: and gay, but afterward he left me alone. Then spake
Speaker 7: I to my kinsmen, all in despair, and also they
Speaker 7: gave me words fair. They lacked no fair speaking, but
Speaker 7: all forsake me in the ending. Then went I to
Speaker 7: my goods that I loved best, in hope to have comfort.
Speaker 7: But there had I least for my goods. Sharply did
Speaker 7: me tell that he bringeth many into hell? Then of
Speaker 7: myself I was ashamed, and so I am worthy to
Speaker 7: be blamed. Thus may I well myself? Hate of whom
Speaker 7: shall I now counsel take? I think that I shall
Speaker 7: never speed till that I go to my good deed.
Speaker 7: But alas she is so weak that she can neither
Speaker 7: go nor speak. Yet will I venture on her?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 7: My good deeds? Where be you?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 11: I lie called in the ground. Thy sins had me
Speaker 11: so bound that I cannot.
Speaker 7: Stir, Oh good deeds, I stand in fear. I must
Speaker 7: you pray of counsel for help. Now should come right well.
Speaker 11: Every man, I have understanding that ye be summoned a
Speaker 11: count to make before Messiahs of Jerusalem King. And you
Speaker 11: do by me that journey what you will I take?
Speaker 7: Therefore I come to you my moan to me. I
Speaker 7: pray you that you will go with me.
Speaker 11: I would full fain, but I cannot stand verily.
Speaker 7: Why is there anything on you fall?
Speaker 11: Yea, sir, I may thank you of all if ye
Speaker 11: had perfectly cheered me your book of account now, for
Speaker 11: already had been look the books of your works. Indeed,
Speaker 11: seek oh see how they lie under the feet to
Speaker 11: your soul's heaviness.
Speaker 7: Our Lord Jesus helped me for one letter. Here I
Speaker 7: cannot see there is.
Speaker 11: A blind reckoning in time of distress good deeds.
Speaker 7: I pray you help me in this need, or else
Speaker 7: I am forever damned. Indeed, Therefore, help me to make
Speaker 7: reckoning before the redeemer of all things, that king is
Speaker 7: and was and ever.
Speaker 11: Shall every man. I am sorry of your fall and
Speaker 11: fain would I help you, and I were.
Speaker 7: Able good deeds your counsel.
Speaker 11: I pray you give me that shall I do verily,
Speaker 11: though that on my feet I may not go. I
Speaker 11: have a sister that shall with you also court knowledge,
Speaker 11: which shall with you abide to help you to make
Speaker 11: that dreadful reckoning.
Speaker 12: Every man. I will go with THEE and be thy
Speaker 12: guide in thy most need, to go by thy side.
Speaker 7: In good condition. I am now in everything and am
Speaker 7: wholly content with this good thing. Thanked be God, my creator.
Speaker 11: And when he had brought THEE there where thou shalt
Speaker 11: heal thee of thy smart then go you, with your
Speaker 11: reckoning and your good deeds together, for to make you
Speaker 11: joyful at hurt before the blessed Trinity.
Speaker 7: My good deeds from mercy, I am well content certainly
Speaker 7: with your words.
Speaker 12: Sweet Now go we together lovingly to confession that cleansing river.
Speaker 7: For joy I weep. I would we were there, But
Speaker 7: I pray you give me cognition where dwelleth that holy
Speaker 7: man confession.
Speaker 12: In the House of Salvation, we shall find him in
Speaker 12: that place that shall us comfort by God's grace. Lo,
Speaker 12: this is confession. Kneel down and ask mercy, for he
Speaker 12: is in good conceit with God Almighty.
Speaker 7: O glorious fountain, that all uncleanness doth clarify. Wash from
Speaker 7: me the spots of vices unclean, that on me no
Speaker 7: sin may be seen. I come with knowledge for my redemption,
Speaker 7: repent with hearty and full contrition, for I am commanded
Speaker 7: a pilgrimage to take, and great accounts before God to make.
Speaker 7: Now I pray you, Shrift, Mother of Salvation, help my
Speaker 7: good deeds for my piteous exclamation.
Speaker 13: I know your sorrow well, every man, because with knowledge
Speaker 13: ye come to me. I will you comfort as well
Speaker 13: as I can, and a precious jewel. I will give
Speaker 13: THEE called penance, wise voider of adversity therewith shall your
Speaker 13: bodyst diet. It be with abstinence and perseverance in God's service.
Speaker 13: Here shall you receive that scourge of me, which is penance,
Speaker 13: strong that ye must endure to remember, Thy savior was
Speaker 13: scourged for thee with sharp scourges, and suffered it patiently.
Speaker 13: So must thou or thou escape that painful pilgrimage. Knowledge
Speaker 13: keep him in this voyage, and by that time good
Speaker 13: deeds will be with THEE. But in anywise be sure
Speaker 13: of mercy. For your time draweth fast, and ye will
Speaker 13: save it. Be ask God mercy, and he will grant truly.
Speaker 13: When with the scourge of penance man doth him bind
Speaker 13: the oil of forgiveness, then shall he find.
Speaker 7: Thanked be God for his gracious work. For now I
Speaker 7: will my penance begin. This hath rejoiced and lighted my heart,
Speaker 7: though the naught be painful and hard within.
Speaker 12: Every man. Look your penance, that ye fulfill, what pain
Speaker 12: that ever it to you be, And knowledge shall give
Speaker 12: you counsel at will. How your accounts ye shall make clearly.
Speaker 7: O Eternal God, O heavenly figure, a way of righteousness,
Speaker 7: so goodly vision, which descended down in a virgin pure
Speaker 7: because he would every man redeem which Adam forfeited by
Speaker 7: his disobedience. Oh, blessed Godhead elect and High Divine, forgive
Speaker 7: my grievous offense. Here I cry thee mercy in this presence,
Speaker 7: O ghostly treasure, O Ransomer and Redeemer of all the world,
Speaker 7: Hope and conductor mirror of joy and founder of mercy,
Speaker 7: which illumineth heaven and earth. Thereby hear my clamorous complaints,
Speaker 7: though it late be receive my prayers unworthy in this
Speaker 7: heavy life. Though I be a sinner, most abominable, Yet
Speaker 7: let my name be written in Moses's table. Oh Mary,
Speaker 7: pray to the maker of all thing me for to
Speaker 7: help at my ending and save me from the power
Speaker 7: of my enemy for death. Assaileth me strongly, and lady,
Speaker 7: that I may, by means of thy prayer, of your
Speaker 7: Son's glory, to be partaker by the means of his passion.
Speaker 7: I at crave, I beseech you help my soul to
Speaker 7: save knowledge, give me the scourge of penance. My flesh
Speaker 7: therewith shall give a quittance. I will now begin, if
Speaker 7: God give me grace.
Speaker 12: Every man, God give you time and space. Thus I
Speaker 12: bequeath you in the hands of our Savior. Thus may
Speaker 12: you make your reckoning sure in.
Speaker 7: The name of the Holy Trinity. My body sore punished,
Speaker 7: shall be take this body for the sin of the flesh. Ah. Also,
Speaker 7: thou delightest to go gay and fresh, and in the
Speaker 7: way of damnation, Thou did me bring Therefore suffer now
Speaker 7: strokes and punishing.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 7: Now of penance, I will weigh the water clear to
Speaker 7: save me from purgatory. That's sharp fire. Ah.
Speaker 11: I thank God. Now I can walk and go. I
Speaker 11: am delivered of my sickness and woe. Therefore with every
Speaker 11: man I will go and not spare his good works.
Speaker 11: I will help him to declare.
Speaker 12: Now, every man, be merry and glad. Your good deeds
Speaker 12: cometh Now, ye may not be sad. Now is your
Speaker 12: good deeds whole and sound, going upright upon the ground.
Speaker 7: My heart is light and shall be evermore. Now will
Speaker 7: I smite faster than I did before.
Speaker 11: Ah, every man, pilgrim, my special friend. Blessed be thou
Speaker 11: without end, for these prepared the eternal glory. He have
Speaker 11: made me whole and sound. Therefore I will abide by
Speaker 11: THEE in every stone.
Speaker 7: Welcome my good deeds. Now I hear thy voice, I
Speaker 7: weep for very sweetness of love.
Speaker 12: Be no more sad, but ever rejoice. God seeth thy
Speaker 12: living in his throne above. Put on this garment to
Speaker 12: thy behoove, which is wet with your tears, or else
Speaker 12: before God, you may it miss. When you to your
Speaker 12: journey's end, come.
Speaker 7: Shall gentle knowledge what you would call.
Speaker 12: It is a garment of sorrow from pain? It will
Speaker 12: you borrow contrition? It is that gadeth forgiveness. It pleases
Speaker 12: God passing well every man?
Speaker 11: Will you wear it for your heel?
Speaker 7: Now? Blessed be James Mary's son. For now have I
Speaker 7: on true contrition? And let us go now without tarrying
Speaker 7: good deeds? Have we clear our reckoning?
Speaker 11: Yea, indeed I have it here?
Speaker 7: Then I trust we need not fear. Now, friends, let
Speaker 7: us not part in twain.
Speaker 12: Nay, every man that will we not certain?
Speaker 7: Yet?
Speaker 11: Must thou lead with thee three persons of great might?
Speaker 7: Who should they be?
Speaker 11: Discretion and strength they height, and thy beauty may not
Speaker 11: abide behind.
Speaker 12: Also ye must call to mind your five wits. As
Speaker 12: for your counselors, you must have them ready at allll ours.
Speaker 7: How shall I get them hither?
Speaker 12: You must call them all together, and they will hear
Speaker 12: you incontinent.
Speaker 7: My friends, come hither and be present, discretion, strength, my
Speaker 7: five wits and beauty hear at your will?
Speaker 14: We be all ready? What will ye that we should do?
Speaker 11: That ye would with every man go and help him
Speaker 11: in his pilgrimage advise you will ye with him or
Speaker 11: not in that voyage.
Speaker 5: We will bring him all thither to his help and comfort.
Speaker 5: Ye may believe.
Speaker 15: Me, so will we go with them altogether.
Speaker 7: Almighty God, love thou be. I give thee lad that
Speaker 7: I have hither brought strength, discretion, beauty, and five wits
Speaker 7: like I not, and my good deeds with knowledge clear.
Speaker 7: All be in my company at my will. Here I
Speaker 7: desire no more to my business.
Speaker 5: And I strength will by you stand in distress, though
Speaker 5: thou would in battle, fight on the ground.
Speaker 16: And though it were through the world round. We will
Speaker 16: not depart for sweet nor sour.
Speaker 14: No more will I unto deaths hour whatsoever thereof.
Speaker 15: Before every man advise you first of all go with
Speaker 15: a good advisement and deliberation. We all give you virtuous
Speaker 15: monition that all shall be well.
Speaker 7: My friends, hearken what I will tell. I pray God
Speaker 7: reward you in his heavenly sphere. Now hearken all that
Speaker 7: be here, for I will make my testament here before
Speaker 7: you all present in alms. Half my good I will
Speaker 7: give with my hands twain in the way of charity
Speaker 7: with good intent, and the other half still shall remain
Speaker 7: in quiet to be returned there. It ought to be
Speaker 7: this I do, in despite of the fiend of Hell,
Speaker 7: to go quite out of his peril ever after. And
Speaker 7: this day.
Speaker 12: Every man hearken what I say, go to priesthood, iye advise,
Speaker 12: and receive of him in any wise the Holy Sacrament
Speaker 12: and ointment together. Then shortly see ye turn again hither
Speaker 12: we will all abide.
Speaker 16: You here yea every man high you that ye ready were.
Speaker 16: There is no emperor, King Duke Ney Baron that of
Speaker 16: God hath commission, as hath the least priest in the world,
Speaker 16: being for of the blessed sacraments pure and benign. He
Speaker 16: beareth the keys, and therefore hath the cure for man's redemption.
Speaker 16: It is ever sure which God, for our soul's medicine,
Speaker 16: gave us out of his heart with great pine. Here
Speaker 16: in this transitory life for thee and me, the blessed
Speaker 16: sacraments seven there be Baptism, confirmation with priesthood good and
Speaker 16: the sacrament of God's precious flesh and blood, Marriage, the
Speaker 16: Holy extreme Unction, and penance. These seven be good to
Speaker 16: heave in remembrance, gracious sacraments of high divinity.
Speaker 7: Fain would I receive that holy body, and meekly to
Speaker 7: my ghostly Father.
Speaker 16: I will go every man that is the best that
Speaker 16: ye can do. God, will you to salvation bring for
Speaker 16: priesthood exceedeth all other thing to us. Holy scripture they
Speaker 16: do teach and converteth man from sin heaven to reach.
Speaker 16: God hath to them more power given than to any
Speaker 16: angel that is in heaven. With five words, he may
Speaker 16: consecrate God's body in flesh and blood, to make and
Speaker 16: handleth his maker between his hands. The priest bindeth and
Speaker 16: unbindeth all bands, both in earth and in heaven. Thou
Speaker 16: ministerst all the sacraments. Seven, though we kissed thy feet,
Speaker 16: thou wre worthy. Thou art surgeon that cureth sin deadly.
Speaker 16: No remedy we find under God, but all only priesthood
Speaker 16: every man. God gave priest that dignity and setteth them
Speaker 16: in His stead among us to be Thus be they
Speaker 16: above angels in degree.
Speaker 12: If priests be good, it is so surely. But when
Speaker 12: Jesus hanged on the cross with great smart there he
Speaker 12: gave out of his blessed heart the same sacrament in
Speaker 12: great torment. He sold them not to us that Lord omnipotent. Therefore,
Speaker 12: Saint Peter the Apostle doth say that Jesu's curse hath
Speaker 12: all they, which God their savior do buy or sell,
Speaker 12: or they for any money do take or tell. Sinful
Speaker 12: priests giveth the sinner's example. Bad their children sitteth by
Speaker 12: other men's fires. I have heard, and some haunteth women's
Speaker 12: company with unclean life, as lusts of leachery. These be
Speaker 12: with sin made blind.
Speaker 16: I trust to God no such may we find. Therefore,
Speaker 16: let us priesthood honor and follow their doctrine. For our
Speaker 16: soul's succor. We be their sheep, and they shepherds be
Speaker 16: by whom we all be kept in surety peace. For
Speaker 16: yonder I see every man come, which hath made true satisfaction.
Speaker 11: Methinketh it is he.
Speaker 7: Indeed, now jes wull be our alder speed. I have
Speaker 7: received the sacrament from my redemption, and then mine extreme unction.
Speaker 7: Blessed be all day that counseled me to take it.
Speaker 7: And now friends, let us go without longer respite. I
Speaker 7: thank God that ye have tarried so long. Now set
Speaker 7: each of you on this rod your hand, and shortly
Speaker 7: follow me. I go before there I would be God
Speaker 7: be our guide.
Speaker 5: Every man. We will not from you go till ye
Speaker 5: have gone this voyage.
Speaker 15: I discretion will bide by you also.
Speaker 12: And though this pilgrimage be never so strong, I will
Speaker 12: never part you fro every man, I will be as
Speaker 12: sure by THEE as ever I did by Judas Maccabee.
Speaker 7: Alas I am so faint, I may not stand my
Speaker 7: limbs under me to fold. Friends, let us not turn
Speaker 7: again to this land, not for all the world's gold.
Speaker 7: For into this cave must I creep and turn to
Speaker 7: the earth, and there to sleep?
Speaker 14: What into this grave?
Speaker 7: Alas, yeay, there shall you consume more and less?
Speaker 14: And what should I smother?
Speaker 11: Here?
Speaker 7: Yay? By my faith, and never more appear in this
Speaker 7: world live no more we shall, but in heaven before
Speaker 7: the highest Lord of all.
Speaker 14: I cross out all this adieu by Saint John. I
Speaker 14: take my cap in my lap and am gone.
Speaker 7: What beauty whither will ye?
Speaker 15: Peace?
Speaker 14: I am death. I look not behind me not, and
Speaker 14: thou would give me all the gold in thy chest.
Speaker 7: Alas, where too, may I trust? Beauty goeth fast away? Hi,
Speaker 7: she promised with me to live and die.
Speaker 5: Every man, I will THEE also forsake and deny. They
Speaker 5: game liketh me not at all.
Speaker 7: Why then you will forsake me all sweet strength, tarry
Speaker 7: a little space.
Speaker 5: Nay, sir, by the rood of grace, I will hie
Speaker 5: me from THEE fast though thou weep till thy heart breast.
Speaker 7: Ye would ever bye by me?
Speaker 5: He said, yea, I have you far enough conveyed? Ye
Speaker 5: be old enough. I understand your pilgrimage to take on
Speaker 5: hand me that I hither came strength.
Speaker 7: You to displease, I am to blame. Will you break
Speaker 7: promise that his debt in faith?
Speaker 5: I cannot thou art but a fool to complain. You
Speaker 5: spend your speech and waste your brain. Go thrust THEE
Speaker 5: into the ground I.
Speaker 7: Had when sure or I should you have found he
Speaker 7: that trusteth in his strength? She him deceiveth at the
Speaker 7: length both strength and beauty forsaketh me. Yet they promised
Speaker 7: me fair and lovingly.
Speaker 15: Every man, I will after strength be gone. As for me,
Speaker 15: I will leave you alone.
Speaker 7: Why discretion, will ye forsake me?
Speaker 15: Yea, in faith I will go from THEE. For when
Speaker 15: strength goeth before, I follow after evermore.
Speaker 7: Yet I pray THEE for the love of the Trinity,
Speaker 7: look in my grave once piteously.
Speaker 15: Nay, so nigh I'm not come. Farewell, every one.
Speaker 7: Oh all thing, faileth save God alone, beauty, strength and discretion,
Speaker 7: For when death bloweth his blast, they all run from
Speaker 7: me full.
Speaker 16: Fast, every man, my leave Now of THEE I take,
Speaker 16: I will follow the other, for hear I THEE forsake.
Speaker 7: Alas, then may I wail and weep, for I took
Speaker 7: you for my best friend.
Speaker 16: I will no longer THEE keep. Now farewell and there
Speaker 16: an end.
Speaker 7: Oh chase, O help all a forsaken me.
Speaker 11: Nay, every man, I will bide with THEE. I will
Speaker 11: not forsake THEE. Indeed, thou shalt find me a good
Speaker 11: friend at.
Speaker 7: Need, commercy, good deeds. Now may I true friends see
Speaker 7: they have forsaken me, every one. I love them better
Speaker 7: than my good deeds alone. Knowledge will ye forsake me also?
Speaker 12: Yea every man, when ye to death do go, But
Speaker 12: not yet, for no manner of danger.
Speaker 7: Crome, mercy, knowledge, with all my heart.
Speaker 12: Nay yet, I will not from hence depart till I
Speaker 12: see where ye shall become.
Speaker 7: Methinketh alas that I must be gone to make my reckoning,
Speaker 7: and my debts pay for I see my time is
Speaker 7: nigh spent away. Take example all ye that this do hear?
Speaker 7: Or see how they that I lov'd best do forsake
Speaker 7: me except my good deeds that bideth truly All.
Speaker 11: Earthly things is but vanity, beauty, strength, and discretion. Do
Speaker 11: men forsake foolish friends and kinsmen that fear spake all fleeth,
Speaker 11: save good deeds, and that am ie.
Speaker 7: Have mercy on me, God most Mighty, and stand by me,
Speaker 7: Thou mother and maid, Holy.
Speaker 11: Mary, fear not. I will speak for thee.
Speaker 7: Here I cry, God, mercy, short our.
Speaker 11: End and minish our pain. Let us go and never
Speaker 11: come again.
Speaker 7: Into Thy hands. Lord my soul, I commend receive it, Lord,
Speaker 7: that it be not lost. Hast thou me bodest, sow
Speaker 7: me defend and saved me from the fiend's boast, that
Speaker 7: I may appear with that blessed host that shall be
Speaker 7: saved at the day of doom. In manus to us
Speaker 7: of Might's most forever, commendo spiritum num.
Speaker 12: Now hath he suffered that we all shall endure the
Speaker 12: good deeds shall make all sure. Now hath he made
Speaker 12: ending methinketh that I hear angels say, and make great
Speaker 12: joy and malady were every man's soul received, shall.
Speaker 17: Be come excellent elect spouse to Jesu. Here above thou
Speaker 17: shalt go because of thy singular virtue. Now the soul
Speaker 17: is taken the body fro their reckoning is crystal clear.
Speaker 17: Now shalt thou into the heavenly sphere, unto the which
Speaker 17: all ye shall come that liveth well before the day
Speaker 17: of doom.
Speaker 18: This moral men may have in mind. Ye hearers take
Speaker 18: it of worth, old and young, and forsake pride, for
Speaker 18: He deceiveth you in the end. And remember Beauty five
Speaker 18: wits strength and discretion. They all at the last do
Speaker 18: every man forsake save his good deeds there doth he take.
Speaker 18: But beware an they be small Before God. He hath
Speaker 18: no help at all, None excuse may be there for
Speaker 18: every man alas how shall he do?
Speaker 10: Then?
Speaker 18: For after death amend may no man make. For then
Speaker 18: mercy and pity do him forsake. If his reckoning be
Speaker 18: not clear. When he do come, God will say it
Speaker 18: a maledicti in igname eternum. And he that hath his
Speaker 18: account whole and sound high in heaven, he shall be
Speaker 18: crowned unto which place. God bring us all thither, that
Speaker 18: we may live body and soul together there too, help
Speaker 18: the Trinity. Amen, say ye for Saint Charity.
Speaker 1: Thus endeth the s moral play of every man.