Everyman: A Moral PlayFox, Duffield, 1903 - 43 pages |
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... thou going Thus gaily ? Hast thou thy Maker forgot ? Everyman Why askest thou ? Wouldest thou wit ? Death Yea , sir , I will show you ; in great haste I am sent to thee Fro God out of his Majesty . What ! sent to me ? Yea , certainly ...
... thou going Thus gaily ? Hast thou thy Maker forgot ? Everyman Why askest thou ? Wouldest thou wit ? Death Yea , sir , I will show you ; in great haste I am sent to thee Fro God out of his Majesty . What ! sent to me ? Yea , certainly ...
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... thou shalt know . Everyman What desireth God of me ? That shall I show thee ; Death A reckoning he will needs have ... hast spent thy life , and in what wise , Before the chief lord of paradise . Have ado that we were in that way , For , wit ...
... thou shalt know . Everyman What desireth God of me ? That shall I show thee ; Death A reckoning he will needs have ... hast spent thy life , and in what wise , Before the chief lord of paradise . Have ado that we were in that way , For , wit ...
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... thee ; For , as soon as thou art gone , Another awhile shall have it , and then go therefro , Even as thou hast done . Everyman , thou art mad , thou hast thy wits five , And here on earth will not amend thy life ; For suddenly I do ...
... thee ; For , as soon as thou art gone , Another awhile shall have it , and then go therefro , Even as thou hast done . Everyman , thou art mad , thou hast thy wits five , And here on earth will not amend thy life ; For suddenly I do ...
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... thou , my Goods and Riches ? Goods Who calleth me ? Everyman ? what , hast thou haste ? I lie here in corners trussed and piled so high , And in chests I am locked so fast , Also sacked in bags , thou mayest see with thine eye , 1 I ...
... thou , my Goods and Riches ? Goods Who calleth me ? Everyman ? what , hast thou haste ? I lie here in corners trussed and piled so high , And in chests I am locked so fast , Also sacked in bags , thou mayest see with thine eye , 1 I ...
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A Moral Play. That thine account thou cannot make truly ; And that hast thou for the love of me . Everyman That would grieve me full sore , When I should come to that fearful answer : Up , and let us go thither together . Goods Nay , not ...
A Moral Play. That thine account thou cannot make truly ; And that hast thou for the love of me . Everyman That would grieve me full sore , When I should come to that fearful answer : Up , and let us go thither together . Goods Nay , not ...
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abide angels art thou availeth bear me company Beauty blessed blessed sacraments comfort commandment counsel Cousin Everyman day of doom Deeds Everyman Deeds Yea Discretion Everyman evermore Everyman Alas Everyman Death Everyman Good Deeds Everyman Gramercy Everyman My friends Everyman Ye extreme unction fain fair spake farewell fast fear Fellowship Sir Five Wits Everyman fleeth save forsake thee friends and kinsmen Full unready give thee go thither God's gone grave hast thou hath forsaken hear heart heavenly sphere hell holy Jesu journey Kindred Knowledge Everyman lechery lenger respite let us go liveth living Lord maketh mercy merry MORAL PLAY never pain pray thee priest priesthood promised receive Saint Charity Saint John save Good Deeds Sith sorrow soul's Strength Everyman SUMMON tarrying thou art thou hast thou mayest thou shalt Thy reckoning Trust me verily UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN voyage weep whither whole and sound yonder
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Page ix - Methinks, alas, that I must be gone To make my reckoning and my debts pay, For I see my time is nigh spent away. Take example, all ye that this do hear or see, How they that I loved best do forsake me Except my Good Deeds, that bideth truly.
Page 19 - To give a straight account general Before the highest Jupiter of all; And all my life I have had joy and pleasure in thee. Therefore I pray thee go with me, For, peradventure, thou...
Page 9 - Alas, I may well weep with sighs deep; Now have I no manner of company To help me in my journey, and me to keep; And also my writing is full unready. How shall I do now for to excuse me? I would to God I had never be gete! 5 To my soul a full great profit it had be; For now I fear pains huge and great.
Page 21 - What, weenest thou that I am thine? EVERYMAN. I had wend so. GOODS. Nay, Everyman, I say no; As for a while I was lent thee, A season thou hast had me in prosperity; My condition is man's soul to kill; If I save one, a thousand I do spill; Weenest thou that I will follow thee?
Page 4 - Lord, I will in the world go run over all, And cruelly outsearch both great and small ; Every man will I beset that liveth beastly Out of God's laws, and dreadeth not folly: He that loveth riches I will strike with my dart, His sight to blind, and from heaven to depart, Except that alms be his good friend, In hell for to dwell, world without end.
Page 5 - And look thou be sure of thy reckoning: For before God thou shalt answer, and show Thy many bad deeds and good but a few; How thou hast spent thy life, and in what wise, Before the chief lord of paradise.
Page xiii - MESSENGER. I pray you all give your audience, And hear this matter with reverence, By figure a moral play — The Summoning of Everyman called it is, That of our lives and ending shows How transitory we be all day.
Page 20 - I should come to that fearful answer. Up, let us go thither together. GOODS. Nay, not so, I am too brittle, I may not endure ; I will follow no man one foot, be ye sure. EVERYMAN. Alas, I have thee loved, and had great pleasure All my life-days on good and treasure. GOODS. That is to thy damnation without lesing, For my love is contrary to the love everlasting.
Page 19 - Jupiter of all; And all my life I have had joy and pleasure in thee. Therefore I pray thee go with me, For, peradventure, thou mayst before God Almighty My reckoning help to clean and purify; For it is said ever among. That money maketh all right that is wrong.
Page 26 - Now go we together lovingly, To Confession, that cleansing river. Everyman. For joy I weep; I would we were there; But, I pray you, give me cognition Where dwelleth that holy man, Confession.