Fifteenth Century Prose and VerseAlfred William Pollard |
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Abbot abide Almighty Apostles Archbishop arette believe Bishop blessed book treateth books of Chronicles bread busily charity CHRIST Clerk commanded counsel covetousness cunning and power death DEEDS divers doth dread English EVERYMAN faith false foresaid forsake friends garments gentle Knight GOD's Law Gospel grace green wood hath heart heaven HEROD Holy Church HOLY GHOST JOHN PURVEY John Rastell King knoweth Lady Latin learning Little JOHN living Lord of COBHAM losell MARY Master mercy Monk never noble ordained pray preach priests PROPHET proud Sheriff ROBIN HOOD Sacrament Saint Saint JEROME Saint PAUL saith Saltwood Castle sarcenet sentence Sheriff of NOTTINGHAM shew sing slander soul swear teaching thee thing THOMAS ARUNDELL thou art thou hast thou shalt tithes translation Trinity true Truth unto virtue Wherefore wilfully William William Caxton wise witness woman women words worship worthy
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Page 292 - Everyman, I will go with thee and be thy guide, In thy most need to go by thy side.
Page 237 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.
Page 300 - And now, friends, let us go without longer respite — I thank God that ye have tarried so long — Now set, each of you, on this rod your hand, And shortly follow me : I go before there I would be ; God be our guide ! STRENGTH.
Page 287 - In my time, sith life was me lent; And of all virtues that I have refused. Therefore I pray you go thither with me, To help to make mine account, for Saint Charity. COUSIN. What, to go thither? Is that the matter?
Page 235 - Principum, part of his noble acts, and also of his fall. Also Galfridus in his British book recounteth his life; and in divers places of England many remembrances be yet of him and shall remain perpetually, and also of his knights.
Page 280 - I give thee, if thou will be kind — Yea, a thousand pound shalt thou have — And defer this matter till another day. Death. Everyman, it may not be, by no way. I set not by gold, silver, nor riches, Ne by pope, emperor, king, duke, ne princes ; For, and...
Page 236 - For in all places, Christian and heathen, he is reputed and taken for one of the nine worthy and the first of the three Christian men. And also, he is more spoken of beyond the sea, more books made of his noble acts, than there be in England, as well in Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Greekish, as in French.
Page 291 - But all forsake me in the ending. Then went I to my Goods that I loved best, In hope to have comfort, but there had I least; For my Goods sharply did me tell That he bringeth many into hell.
Page 280 - For turn again thou cannot by no way. 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 279 - God. Go thou to Everyman, And show him in my name A pilgrimage he must on him take, Which he in no wise may escape; And that he bring with him a sure reckoning Without delay or any tarrying.