¶ Here beginneth a treatise how the high father of heaven sendeth death to summon every creature to come and give a count of their lives in this world and is in manner of a moral play. woodcut representing a male figure or Everyman and the personification of Death standing amongst cross gravestones and bones Everyman. woodcut representing a male figure or Everyman and the personifications of Fellowship, Beauty, Discretion, Strength and kindred or kinsmen fellowship Everyman. Beauty discretion. strength. ¶ Kin. messengere I Pray you all give your audience. And here this matter with reverent 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 This matter is wondrous precious But the intent of it/ is more gracious And sweet to bear away This story sayeth man in the beginning Look well & take good hood to the ending Be you never so gay. ye think sin in the beginning full sweet Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep When the body lieth in clay Here shall you see how fellowship and solyte Both strength/ pleasure/ and beauty Will bade from the as flower in may For ye shall here/ how our heaven kenge Calleth everyman to a general reckoning give audyens and here what he will say ¶ God speaketh. God. ¶ I perceive here in my majesty How that all creatures/ be to me unkind living without dread/ in worldly prosperity Of ghostly sight/ the people be so blind Drowned in sin/ they know me not for their god In worldly riches is all their mind They fear not my right wyllenes, that sharp tool My law that I showed/ when I for them died They forgot clean/ & shedding of my blood so red I hanged between two thieves/ it cannot be denied To get them life I suffer to be deed I healed their feet/ with thorns hurt was my heed I could do no more than I died truly And now I see the people do clean forsake me They use the seven deadly sins damnable As pride/ covetise/ wrath/ and lechery Now in the world be made commendable And thus they leave of angels the heavenly company Everyman liveth so after his own pleasure And yet of their life they be not sure I see the more that I them forbear The worse they are from year to year All that liveth appeareth fast Therefore I will in all the haste Have a reckoning of every man's person For and I leave the people thus alone In their life and wicked tempests Verily they will become moche worse than beasts For now one would by envy another up ere charity they all do clean forget I hoped well that everyman In my glory should make his mansion And thereto I had them all elect But now I see that like traitors deject They thank me not for the pleasure that I to them meant Nor yet for their being that I them have lente I proffered the people great multitude of mercy And few there be that asketh it heartily They be so cumbered with worldly riches That needs on them I must do justice On everyman living without fear Where art thou death the mighty messengere ¶ Death. ¶ almighty god I am here at your will your commandment to fulfil God. ¶ Go thou to everyman And show him in my name Apylgrymage/ 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 Death. ¶ Lord I will in the world go renover all And truly out search both great and small Everyman I will be set 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 depart Except that alms deeds be his good friend In hell for to dwell/ world without end Loo/ yonder I see everyman walking Full little he thinketh on my coming His mind is on fleshly lusts/ and his treasure And great pain/ it shall cause him to endure Before the lord heaven king Everyman/ stand still/ whether art that going Thus gaily Hast thou thy maker forget ¶ Everyman. ¶ Why askest thou wouldest thou were Death. ¶ ye sir I will show you In great hast I am send to the From god out of his majesty everyman ¶ What/ send to me Death. ¶ ye certainly Though thou have forget him here He thinketh on the in the heavenly spear As or we depart thou shall know every man ¶ What desireth god of me Death. ¶ That shall I show the A reckoning he will needs have Without longer respite every man ¶ To give a reckoning longer leisure I crave This blind matter trubleth my wit Death. ¶ On the thou must take a long journey Therefore thy book of count with the thou bring For turn again thou can not by no way And look thou be sure of thy reckoning For before god shalt thou answer and show Thy many bad deeds and good but a few How thou hast speed thy life and in what wise Before the chief lord of paradise Have a do that we were in that way For were thou well thou shalt make none attournay every man ¶ Full uneedy I am such reckoning to give I know the not what messenger art thou Death. ¶ I am death that no man dreadeth For every man I rest and none spareth For it is god's commandment That all to me should be obedient every man ¶ O death thou cummest what I had the leeft in mind In thy power it lieth me to save yet of my good will I give the if ye will be kind ye a thousand pound shalt thou have And defer this matter till another day Death. ¶ Every man it may not be by no way I set not by gold silver nor richesse Ne by pope/ emperor/ king/ duke/ ne princes For and I would receive geftes great All the world I might get All my custom is clean contrary I give the no respite come hens and not tarry every man ¶ Alas shall I have no longer respite I may say death giveth no warning To think on the it maketh my heart seek For all unready is my book of reckoning But xii year and I might have a biding My counting book I would make so clear That my reckoning I should not need to fere Wherefore death I pray the for god's mercy Spare me till I be provided of remedy Death. ¶ The availeth not to cry weep and pray But hast the lightly that thou were gone the journey And prove thy friends if thou can For weet you well the tide abideth no man And in the world each living creature For adams sin must die of nature everyman ¶ Death if I should this pilgrimage take And my reckoning surely make Show me for saint charity Should I not come again shortly Death. ¶ No everyman and thou be ones there Thou must never more come here Trust me verily everyman ¶ gracious god in high seat celestial Have mercy on me in this most need Shall I have no company fro this vale terestyall death. Of mine aqueyntaunce that way me to lead ¶ ye if any be so hardy That would go with thee/ and bear the company high the that thou were gone to god's magnyfycens Thy reckoning to give before his presence What/ weenest thou thy life is given the And thy wordly goods also every man ¶ I had wend so verily Death. ¶ Nay nay/ it was but lend the For as soon as thou art go Another a while shall have it/ & than go therefro Even as thou hast done Everyman thou art mad/ that haste thy wits five And here on earth/ will not amend thy live For suddenly I do come. every man ¶ Do/ wretched caitiff whether shall I flee That I might scape this endless sorrow Now gentle death spare me till to morrow That I may amend me With good advisement. Death. ¶ Nay thereto I will not consent Nor no man will I respite But to the heart suddenly I shall smite Without any advisement And now out of sight I will me high See thou make the ready shortly For thou mayst say this is the day That no man living may scape away every man ¶ Alas I may well weep with sighs deep Now have I no manner of company To help me in my journey/ & me to keep And also my writing is full unready Now shall I do now/ for to excuse me I would to god I had never be get To my soul a great profit it had be For now I fear pains huge and great The time passeth/ lord help that all wrought For though I mourn it availeth nought The day passeth/ and is almost ago I wots not well what to do To whom were I best my complante to make What and I to fellowship thereof spoke And showed him of this sudden chance For in him is all mine affiance We have in the world so many a day Be good friends in sport and play I see him yonder cartaynely I trust that he will bear me company Therefore to him will I speak to ease my sorrow Well met god fellowship and good morrow. ¶ fellowship speaketh. fellow. ¶ Everyman good morrow by this day Sir why lookest thou so piteously If any thing be amiss/ I pray the me say That I may help to remedy every man ¶ ye good fellowship ye I am in great jeopardy fellow. ¶ My true friend/ show to me your mind I will not forsake thee/ unto my lives end In the way of good company every man ¶ That is well spoken and lovingly fellow. ¶ Sir I must needs know your heaviness. I have pity to see you in any distress If any have you wronged ye shall revenged be Though I on the ground be slain for the Though that I know before that I should die every man ¶ verily fellowship gramercy fellow. ¶ tush/ be thy thanks I set not a straw Show me your grief/ and say no more every man ¶ if I my heart should to you break And than you to turn your mind from me And would not me comfort/ when you here me speak Than should I ten times sorrier be fellow. ¶ Sir I say as I will do in deed every man ¶ Than be you a good friend at need I have found you true here before fellow. ¶ And so ye shall evermore For in faith and thou go to hell I will not forsake the by the way every man ¶ ye speak like a good friend/ I believe you well I shall deserve it and I may fellow. ¶ I speak of no deserving/ by this day For he that will say/ and nothing do Is not worthy with good company to go Therefore show me the grief of your mind As to your friend most loving and kind every man ¶ I shall show you how it is Commanded I am to go a journey A long way/ heard and dangerous And give a straight count without delay Before the high judge adonay Wherefore I pray you/ bear me company As ye have promised in this journey fellow. ¶ That is matter in deed/ promise is duty But & I should take such a viage on me I know it well it should be to my pain Also it maketh me afeard certain But let us take council here as we can For your words would fear a strong man every man ¶ Why/ ye said if I had need ye would me never forsake/ quick ne deed Though it were to hell truly fellow. ¶ So I said certainly But such pleasures be set aside/ the sooth to say And also if we took such a journey When should we come again every man ¶ Nay/ nyver again/ till the day of doom fellow. ¶ In faith than will not I come there Who hath you these tidings brought every man ¶ In deed death was with me here fellow. ¶ No why god that all hath bought If death were the messengere For no man that is living to day I will not go that lothesom journey Not for the father that begat me every man ¶ ye promised me other wise pard fellow. ¶ I wots well I said so truly And yet/ if the wilt eat & drink & make good there Or haunt to women/ that lusty company I would not forsake you/ while the day is clear Trust me verily every man ¶ ye thereto ye would be ready To go to mirth/ solace/ and play your mind to folly will sooner apply Than to beat me company in my long journey fellow. ¶ Nay in good faith/ I will not that way But and thou wilt murder/ or any man kill In that I will help thee/ with a good will every man ¶ O that is a simple advise in deed gentle fellow help me in my necessity We have loved long and now I need And now gentle fellowship remember me fellow. ¶ Whether ye have loved me or no By saint Iohn I will not with the go every man ¶ yet I pray the take the labour & do so much for me To bring me forward for saint charity And comfort me till I come without the town fellow. ¶ Nay and thou would give me a new gown I will not one foot with the go But and that had tarried I would not a left the so And as now god speed the in thy journey For from the I will depart as fast as I may every man. ¶ Whether away fellowship/ wilt thou forsake me fellow. ¶ ye by my say/ to god I betake the every man ¶ Farewell good fellowship for the my heart is sore fellow. ¶ A dew for I shall never see the no more every man ¶ In faith everyman farewell now at the end For you I will remember that parting is mourning A lack shall we thus depart in deed O lady help without any more comfort Lo fellowship forsaketh me in my most need For help in this world whether shall I resort fellowship here before with me would merry make And now little sorrow for me doth he take It is said in prosperity men friends may find Which in adversity be full unkind Now whether for succour shall I flee Sith that fellowship hath forsaken me To my kinsmen I will truly praying them to help me in my necessity I believe that they will do so For kind will creep where it may not go I will go say/ for yonder I see them go Where be ye now my friends and kinsmen Kindred. ¶ Here be we now at your commandment Cousin I pray you show us your intent In any wise and do not spare Cousin. ¶ ye everyman and us to declare if ye be disposed to go any whether For wots ye well/ we will live & die together Kindred. ¶ In wealth & woe/ we will with you hold For over his kin a man may be bold every man ¶ Geamercy my friends & kinsmen kind Now shall I show you the grief of my mind I was commanded by a messengere That is an high kings chief officer He had me go a pilgrimage to my pain But I know well I shall never come again Also I must give reckoning straight For I have a great enemy/ that hath me in wait Which intendeth me for to hinder Kindred. ¶ What a count is that/ which ye must render That would I know every man ¶ Of all my works I must show How I have lived/ and my days spent Also of ill deeds/ that I have used In my time/ sith life was me lente 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 Nay everyman I had liefer fast breed & water All this five year and more every man ¶ Alas that ever I was borne For now shall I never be merry if that you forsake me Kindred. ¶ A sir what ye be a merry man Take good heart to you/ and make no moan But one thing I warn you/ by saint Anne As for me/ ye shall go alone every man ¶ My cousin/ will you not with me go Cousin. ¶ No by our lady/ I have the cramp in my to Trust not to me/ for so god me speed I will deceive you/ in your most need Kindred. ¶ It availeth not us to tyse ye shall have my maid/ with all my heart She loveth to go to feasts/ there to be nice And to dance/ and a broad to start I will give her leave/ to help you in that iurnaye If that you and she may agree every man ¶ Nw show me the very effect of your mind Will you go with me/ or abide behind Kindred. ¶ Abide behind/ ye that will I & I may Therefore farewell/ till another day everyman ¶ How should I be merry or glad For fair promises/ men to me do make But when I have most need/ they me forsake I am deceived that maketh me sad Cousin. ¶ Cousin everyman farewell now For verily I will not go with you Also of my own/ a unredy reckoning I have to account/ therefore I make tarrying Now god keep thee/ for now I go every man ¶ A jesus is all come hereto Loo/ fair words maketh fools feign They promise/ & nothing will do certain My kinsmen promised me faithfully For to abide with me steadfastly And now fast away do they flee even so fellowship promised me What friend were best me of to provide I lose my time here longer to abide yet in my mind a thing there is All my life I have loved riches If that my good now help me/ might It would make my heart full light I will speak to him/ in this distress Where art thou my goods and riches. Goods. ¶ Who calleth me (everyman) what hast thou hast I lie here in corners trussed and piled so high And in chests I am locked full fast Also sacked in bags/ thou mayst see with thine eye I cannot steer/ in packs low I lie what would ye have/ lightly me saye every man ¶ Cume hither good/ in all the hast thou may For of council I must desire the Goods. ¶ Sir & ye in the world have trouble or adversity Than can I help you/ to remedy shortly every man ¶ It is another disease that grieveth me In this world it is not/ I tell so I am send for another way to go To give a straight account general Before the highest jupiter of all And all my life/ I have had joy & pleasure in the Therefore I pray the go with me For peradventure thou mayest before god almighty My reckoning help to clean and purify For it is said ever among That money maketh all right/ that is wrong Goods. ¶ Nay everyman/ I sing another song I follow no man in such byages For and I went with the Thou shouldest far much the worse for me For because on me thou died set thy mind Thy reckoning I have made/ blotted and blind That thine account thou cannot make truly And that hast thou for the love of me every man ¶ That would grieve me full sore When I should come to that fearful answer Up let us go thither together Goods. ¶ Nay not so I am to brittle I may not endure I will follow no man one foot be thou sure everyman ¶ Alas I have the loved & had great pleasure All my life days on good and treasure Goods. ¶ That is to thy damnation without losing For my love is contrary/ to the love everlasting But if thou had me loved moderately during As to the poor to give part for me Than shouldest thou not in this dolour be Nor in this great sorrow and care every man ¶ Lo now/ I was deceived or I was ware And all I may wite my spending of time Goods. ¶ What weenest thou that I am thine every man ¶ I had went so Goods. ¶ Nay everyman I say no As for a while I was lente the A season thou haste had me in prosperity My conditions is man's soul to kill if I save one/ a thousand I do spill Weenest thou that I will follow the From this world nay verily every man ¶ I had wend otherwise Goods. ¶ Therefore to thy soul good is a thief For when thou art deed this is my guise Another to deceive in the same wise As I have done thee/ & all to his soul's reproof every man ¶ O false good cursed thou be Thou traitor to god/ thou hast deceived me And caught me in thy snare Goods. ¶ Marry thou brought thyself in care Where of I am glad I must needs laugh/ I cannot be sad every man ¶ A good thou hast had my heartily love I gave the that which should be the lords above But wilt thou not go with me in deed I pray the truth to say Goods. ¶ No so god me speed Therefore farewell and have good day every man ¶ O to whom shall I make my moan For to go with me/ in that heavy journey first fellowship/ he said he would with me go His words were very pleasant and gay But afterward he left me alone Than spoke I to my kynnysmen all in despair And also they gave me words fair They lacked no fair speaking But all forsake me in the ending Than went I to my goods that I loved best In hope to have cumforte/ but there had I least For my goods sharply did me tell That he bringeth many in hell Than of myself I was a shamed And so I am worthy told blamed Thus may I well myself hate Of whom shall I now council take I think that I shall never speed Till that I go to my good deed But able she is so week That she can no there go nor speak yet will 〈…〉 her now My good deeds where be you Good deed ¶ Here I lie cold in the ground Thy sins have me so fore bound That I cannot steer every man ¶ O/ good deeds I stand in fear I must you pray of council For help now should come right well Good deed ¶ Everyman I have understanding That thou art summoned a count to make Before Messya●● of jerusalem king And you do by not that journey with you will I take every man ¶ Therefore I come to you my moan to make I pray the to go with me Good deed ¶ I would full fain but I cannot stand verily every man ¶ Why is there any thing on your 〈◊〉 Good deed ¶ y● sir 〈◊〉 may thank you of all if ye had perfitly the redi●e your book of account/ full ready now had be Look the books of your works & deeds eke Behold how they lie under the feet To your souls ●●●ynes every man ¶ Our lord jesus help me For one letter herein can I not see Good deed ¶ There is a blind reckoning in time of distress every man ¶ Good deeds I pray you help me in this need Or else I am for ever damned in deed Therefore help me to make my reckoning Before the redeemer of all thing That king is and was and ever shall Good deed ¶ Everyman I am sorry of your fall And fain would I help you & I were able every man ¶ Good deeds your council I pray you give me Good deed ¶ That shall I do verily Though that on my feet I may not go I have a sister that shall with you also Called knowledge/ which shall with you abide To help you to make that dreadful reckoning Knowledge ¶ Everyman I will go with thee/ and be thy guide In thy most need to go by thy side every man ¶ In good condition I am now in every thing And am holy content with this good thing thanked be god my creature Good deed ¶ And when he hath brought the there Where thou shalt heal the of thy smart Than go thou with thy reckoning & thy good deeds together For to make the joyful at the heart Before the blessed trinity every man ¶ My good deeds I thank the hartfully I am well content certainly With your words sweet Knowledge ¶ Now go we thither lovingly To confession that cleansing river every man ¶ For joy I weep I would we were there But I pray you to instruct me by intellection Where dwelleth that holy virtue confession Knowledge ¶ In the house of salvation We shall find him in that place That shall us cumforte by god's grace Lo● this is confession/ kneel down & ask mercy For he is in good conceit with god almighty every man ¶ O glorious fountain that all uncleanness doth clarify wash from me the spots of vices unclean That on me no sin may be seen I come with knowledge for my redemption Redempe with heart and full of contrition For I am commanded a pilgrimage to take And great accounts before god to make Now I pray you shrift mother of salvation Help my good deeds/ for my petyous exclamation confession ¶ I know your sorrow well/ everyman Because with knowledge ye come to me I will you comfort as well as I can And a precious jewel I will give the Called penance voider of adversity Therewith shall your body chastised be With abstinence & perseverance in god's service Here shall you receive that scourge of me Which is penance strong that ye must endure To remember thy saviour was scourged for the With sharp scourges and suffered it patiently So must that or thou scape that painful pilgrimage Knowledge him and keep him in this viage And by that time good deeds will be with the But in any wise be sure of mercy For your time draweth fast/ and ye will saved be Ask god mercy and he will grant truly When with the scourge of penance man doth him bind The oil of forgiveness than shall he find every man ¶ Thanked be god for his gracious work For now I will my penance begin This hath rejoiced and lighted my heart Though the knots be painful & hard within Knowledge ¶ Everyman your penance look that ye fulfil What pain that ever it to you be And knowledge will give you council at will How your account ye shall make crelery every man ¶ O eternal god/ o heavenly figure O way of rightwiseness/ o goodly vision Which descended down in a virgin pure Because he would everyman to redeem Which Adam forfeited by his dysobedyens O blessed godhead elect and high divine forgive me my grievous offence Here I cry the mercy in this presence O ghostly treasure/ o ransomer & redeemer Of all the world/ hope and conductor Mirror of joy/ and founder of mercy Which enlumineth heaven and earth thereby Here my clamorous complaint/ though it late be receive my prayers of thy benignity Though I be a sinner most abominable yet let my name be written in moyses table O marry pray to the maker of all thing Me for to help at my ending And save me from the power of my enemy For death assaileth me strongly And lady that I may by mean of thy prayer Of thy sons glory to be part taker By the mean of his passion I it crave I beseech you help my soul to save Knowledge give me the scourge of penance My flesh therewith shall give a quytaunce I will now begin if god give me grace Knowledge ¶ Every man/ god give you time and space Thus I bequeatheth you in the hands of our saviour Thus may you make your reckoning sure every man ¶ In the name of the holy trinity My body sore punished shallbe Take this body for the sin of the flesh Also thou delightest to go gay and fresh And in way of damnation thou did me bring Therefore suffer now strokes and punysshenge Now of penance I will wade the water clear To save me from hell and from the fire Good deed ¶ I thank god now I can walk and go I am delivered of my sickness and woe Therefore with everyman I will go and not spare His god works I will help him to declare Knowledge ¶ Now everyman be merry and glad your good deeds do come ye may not be sad Now is your good deeds hole and sound Going upright upon the ground every man ¶ My heart is light and shall be evermore Now will I smite faster than I did before Good deed ¶ Everyman pilgrim my special friend blessed be thou without end For the is prepared the eternal glory ye have me made hole and sound Therefore I will abide with thee/ in every stound every man ¶ Welcume my good deeds now I here thy voice I weep for very sweetness of love Knowledge ¶ Be no more sad/ but ever more rejoice God seeth thy living in his throne above Put on this garment/ to thy behove Which with your tears is no wall weet Lest before god/ it be unsweet When you to your journeys end come shall every man ¶ gentle knowledge/ what do ye it call Knowledge ¶ It is the garment of sorrow From pain it will you borrow contrition it is That getteth forgiveness It pleaseth god passing well Good deed ¶ Everyman will you were it/ for your hele every man ¶ Now blessed be jesus mary's son For now have I on true contrition And let us go now/ without tarrying Good deeds/ have we clear our reckoning Good deed ¶ ye in deed I have it here every man ¶ Than I trust we need not fere Now friends let us not part in twain Kindred. ¶ Nay everyman/ that will we not certain Good deed ¶ yet must thou lead with the Three persons of great might every man ¶ Who should they be Good deed ¶ discretion and strength they height And thy beauty may not abide behind Knowledge ¶ Also ye must call to mind your five wits/ as for your counsellors Good deed ¶ you must have them ready/ at all hours every man ¶ How shall I get them hither Kindred. ¶ you must call them all together And they will here you in continent every man ¶ My friends come hither and be present discretion/ strength/ my five wits & beauty Beauty. ¶ Here at your will we be ready What would ye that we shalde do Good deed ¶ That ye would with everyman go And help him in his pilgrimage Advise you/ will ye with him or not/ in that viage Strength ¶ We will bring him all thither To his help & cumforte/ ye may believe me Discretion ¶ So will we go with him all together every man ¶ almighty god/ loved may thou be I give the laud/ that I have hither brought Strength/ discression/ beauty/ & five wits lac I nought And my good deeds/ with knowledge clear All be in company at my will here I desire no more to my business Strength ¶ And I strength will stand by you in distress Though thou wouldest in battle fight on the ground v. wyttis. ¶ And though it were through the world round We will not depart for sweet nor sour Beauty. ¶ No more will I unto deaths hour What so ever thereof befall discretion ¶ Everyman advise you first of all Go with a good advisement/ & deliberation We all give you virtues monition That all shall be well every man ¶ My friends hearken what I will tell I pray god reward you/ in his heavenly spear Now hearken all that be here For I will make my testament Here before you all present In alms half my good I will give with my hands twain In the way of charity with good intent And the other half still shall remane In quiet to be returned there it ought to be This I do in despite of the fiend of hell To go quite out of his apparel Ever after and this day. Knowledge ¶ Everyman hearken what I say Go to priesthood I you advise And receive of him in any wise The holy sacrament/ and ointment together Than shortly see ye turn again hither We will all abide you here. v. wits. ¶ ye everyman high you/ that ye ready were Their is no emperor/ king/ duke/ ne baron That of god hath commission As hath the least priest in the world being For of the blessed sacraments pure & benign He beareth the keys & thereof hath he cure For man's redemption it is ever sure Which god for our soul's medicine Gave us out of his heart with great pine Here in this transitory life/ for the and me The blessed sacraments seven there be Baptym/ confirmation/ with priesthood good And the sacrament of gods precious flesh & blood Marriage the holy extreme unction and penance These vii be good to have in remembrance Gracious sacraments of high divinity every man ¶ Fain would I receive that holy body And meekly to my ghostly father I will go v. wits. ¶ Everyman that is the best that ye can do God will you to salvation bring For good priesthod exceedeth all other thing To us holy scripture they do teach And converteth man from sin heaven to reach God hath to them more power given Than to any angel that is in heaven With .v. words he may consecrate God's body in fresh and blood to make And handleth his maker between his hands The priest bindeth and unbindeth all bands Both in earth and in heaven Thou ministers all the sacrementes seven Though we kiss thy feet thou were worthy Thou art surgeon that cureth sin deadly No remedy we find under god But all only priesthood Everyman god gave priest that dignity And setteth them in his stead among us to be Thus be they above angels in degree Knowledge ¶ If pryestes be good it is so surely But when jesus hinge on the cross with great smart There he gave out of his blessed heart The same sacrament in great torment He sold them not to us that lord omnipotent Therefore saint Peter the apostle doth say That jesus curse hath all they Which god their saviour do buy or sell Or they for any money do take or tell Sinful pryestes giveth the sinners example bade Their children sitteth by other men's fires I have herd. And some haunteth women's company With unclean life as lusts of lechery These be with sin made blind v. wits. ¶ I trust to god no such may we find Therefore let us priesthood honour And follow their doctrine for our souls succour We be their sheep and they shepherds be By whom we all be kept in surety Peas for yonder I see everyman come Which hath made true satysfaccoon Good deed ¶ Me thinketh it is he in deed every man ¶ Now Ihesu christ be your alder speed I have received the sacrament for my redemption And thou mine extreme unction blessed be all they that counseled me to take it 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 folwe me I go before there I would be/ god be our guide Strength ¶ Everyman we will not from you go Till ye have gone this viage long Discretion ¶ I discretion will bide by you also Knowledge ¶ And though this pilgrimage be never so strong I will never part you fro Everyman I will be as sure by the As ever I did by judas machabe every man ¶ Alas I am so faint I may not stand My limbs under me do fold Friends let us not turn again to this land Not for all the worlds gold For into this cave must I creep And turn to the earth & there to sleep Beauty. ¶ What into this grave alas every man ¶ ye there shall you consume more & less Beauty. ¶ And what should Ismoder here every man ¶ ye be my faith and never more appear In this world live no more we shall But in heaven before the highest lord of all Beauty. ¶ I cross out all this/ adieu by faint John I take my cap in my lap and am gone every man ¶ What beauty whether will ye. Beauty. ¶ peas I am deaf/ I look not behind me Not & thou would give me all the gold in thy chest every man ¶ Alas whereto may I trust Beauty goeth fast away and from me She promised with me to live and die Strength ¶ Everyman I will the also forsake & deny Thy game liketh me not at all every man ¶ Why/ than ye will for sake me all Sweet strength tarry a little space Strength ¶ Nay sir by the road of grace I will high me from the fast Though thou weep till thy heart braced every man ¶ ye would ever bide by me ye said Strength ¶ ye I have you far enough conveyed ye be old enough I understand your pilgrimage to take on hand I repent me that I hither came every man ¶ Strength you to displease I am to blame Will you break promise/ that is debt Strength ¶ In faith I care not Thou art but a fool to complain you spend your speech and waste your brain Go thirst the into the ground every man ¶ I had wend surer I should you have found He that trusteth in his strength She him deceiveth at the length Both strength and beauty forsaketh me yet they promised me fair and lovingly Discretion ¶ Everyman I will after strength begun As for me I will leave you alone every man ¶ Why descressyon will ye forsake me discretion ¶ ye in faith I will go from the For when strength goeth before I follow after evermore every man ¶ yet I pray the for the love of the trinity Look in my grave ones piteously Discretion ¶ Nay so nigh I will not come Farewell everichone every man ¶ O all thing faileth save god alone Beauty/ strength/ and descressyon For when death bloweth his blast They all run from me full fast v. wyttis. ¶ Everyman of the now my leave I take I will follow the other for here I the forsake every man ¶ Alas than may I wail and weep For I took you for my best friend v. wits. ¶ I will no longer the keep Now farewell and there an end every man ¶ O jesus help all hath forsaken me Good deed ¶ Nay everyman I will bide with the I will not forsake the in deed Thou shalt find me a god friend at need every man ¶ Gramercy good ded now may I true friends see They have forsaken me everichone I loved them better than my good deeds alone Knowledge will ye forsake me also Knowledge ¶ ye everyman when ye to death do go But not yet for no manner of danger every man ¶ Gramercy knowledge with all my heart Knowledge ¶ Nay yet I will not from hens depart Till I see where ye shall become every man ¶ Me thinketh alas that I must be gone To make may reckoning and my debts pay For I see my time is nigh spent away Take example all ye that this do here or see How they that I loved best do forsake me Except my good deeds that bideth truly Good deed ¶ All ertly thing is but vanity beauty strength and discretion do man forsake foolish friends and kinsmen that fair spoke All fleeth save good deeds and that am I every man ¶ Have mercy on me god most mighty And stand by me thou mother & maid holy Mary Good deed ¶ Fere not I will speak for the every man ¶ Here I cry god mercy Good deed ¶ Short our end and minish our pain Let us go and never come again every man ¶ In to thy hands lord my soul I commend receive it lord that it be not lost As thou me boughtest so me defend And save me from the fiends boast That I may appear with that blessed hoofed That shall be saved at the doom (In manus tuas) of mights most For ever (commendo spiritum meum) Knowledge ¶ Now hath he suffered that we all shall endure The good deeds shall make all sure Now hath he made ending Me thinketh that I here angels sing And make great joy and melody Where every man's soul shall received be Angel. ¶ Cume excellent elect spouse to jesus Here above thou shall go By cause of thy singular virtue Now thy soul is taken thy body fro Thy reckoning is crystal clear Now shalt thou into the heavenly spear Unto the which all ye shall come That liveth well/ before the day of doom. doctor ¶ This memorial men/ may have in mind ye hearers take it of worth old and young And forsake myde/ for he deceiveth you in the end And remember beauty/ five wits/ strength/ and discretion They all at the last/ do everyman forsake Save his good deeds/ there doth he take But beware/ for and they be small Before god/ he hath no help at all None excuse may be there/ for everyman Alas how shall he do than For after death/ amends may no man make For than mercy and yet ye doth him forsake If his reckoning be not clear/ when he do come God will say (ite maledicti in ignem eternam. And he that hath his account hole & sound high in heaven/ he shall be crowned Unto the which place/ god bring us all thither That we may live/ body and soul together Thereto help the trinity Say ye for saint charity. printer's device of John Skot or Scott, featuring a shield bearing Skot's monogram surmounted by a helmet, suspended from a tree and supported by two fabulous beasts (McKerrow 59β) JOHN SCOTT