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... Farewell , good Fellowship ; for this my heart is sore : Adieu for ever , I shall see thee no more . Fellowship In faith , Everyman , farewell now at the end ; For you I will remember that parting is mourning . 1 Everyman Alack ! shall ...
... Farewell , good Fellowship ; for this my heart is sore : Adieu for ever , I shall see thee no more . Fellowship In faith , Everyman , farewell now at the end ; For you I will remember that parting is mourning . 1 Everyman Alack ! shall ...
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... , or abide behind ? Kindred Abide behind ! yea , that will I , and I may ; Therefore farewell till another day . Everyman How should I be merry or glad ? For fair promises men to me make ; But , when I have most need , they me [ 2 ] [ 17 ]
... , or abide behind ? Kindred Abide behind ! yea , that will I , and I may ; Therefore farewell till another day . Everyman How should I be merry or glad ? For fair promises men to me make ; But , when I have most need , they me [ 2 ] [ 17 ]
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... farewell now ; For verily I will not go with you : Also of mine own life an unready reckoning I have to account , therefore I make tarrying ; Now God keep thee , for now I go . Everyman Ah , Jesu , is all come hereto ? Lo , fair words ...
... farewell now ; For verily I will not go with you : Also of mine own life an unready reckoning I have to account , therefore I make tarrying ; Now God keep thee , for now I go . Everyman Ah , Jesu , is all come hereto ? Lo , fair words ...
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... farewell , and have good day Everyman Oh , to whom shall I make my moan , For to go with me in that heavy journey ? First Fellowship he said he would with me gone ; His words were very pleasant and gay , But afterward he left me alone ...
... farewell , and have good day Everyman Oh , to whom shall I make my moan , For to go with me in that heavy journey ? First Fellowship he said he would with me gone ; His words were very pleasant and gay , But afterward he left me alone ...
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... . Everyman Yet , I pray thee , for love of the Trinity , Look in my grave once piteously . Discretion Nay , so nigh will I not come . Now farewell , fellows everichone . Everyman Oh , all thing faileth , save God alone [ 39 ]
... . Everyman Yet , I pray thee , for love of the Trinity , Look in my grave once piteously . Discretion Nay , so nigh will I not come . Now farewell , fellows everichone . Everyman Oh , all thing faileth , save God alone [ 39 ]
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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.