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In this worlde it is not, I tell the so,

I am sent for an other way to go,
To gyve a strayte counte generall
Before the hyest Jupyter of all.

Another to deceyve in this same wyse

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As I have done the, and all to his soules
reprefe".
EVERYMAN. O false Good, cursed thou be,

And all my lyfe I have had joye and pleasure Thou traytour to God, that hast deceyved me in the,

Therfore I pray the go with me;

And caught me in thy snare.

GOODES. Mary10, thou brought thy self in care,

For, paraventure, thou mayst before God al- Wherof I am gladde;

myghty

My rekenynge helpe to clene, and puryfye,
For it is sayd ever amongel

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I must nedes laugh, I can not be sadde. EVERYMAN. A! Good, thou hast had longe my hertely love;

That money maketh all ryght that is wronge. I gave the that whiche sholde be the Lordes GOODES. Nay, Everyman, I synge an other

songe;

I folowe no man in suche vyages,
For, and I wente with the,

Thou sholdes fare moche the worse for me:
For bycause on me thou dyd set thy mynde,
Thy rekenynge I have made blotted and blynde,
That thyne accounte thou can not make truly;
And that hast thou for the love of me.

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EVERYMAN. That wolde greve me full sore, Whan I sholde come to that ferefull answere. Up! let us go thyther to gyder.

above:

But wylte thou not go with me in dede?
I praye the trouth to saye.

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GOODES. No, so God me spede;
Therfore fare well, and have good daye.
EVERYMAN. O to whome shall I make my

mone

For to go with me in that hevy journaye?
Fyrst Felawshyp sayd he wolde with me gone;
His wordes were very pleasaunte and gaye,
But afterwarde he lefte me alone.
Than spake I to my kynnesmen all in despayre,

GOODES. Nay, not so: I am to brytell2, I And also they gave me wordes fayre,—
may not endure:

I wyll folowe [no] man one fote be ye sure. EVERYMAN. Alas, I have the loved, and had grete pleasure

All my lyfe dayes on good and treasure. GOODES. That is to thy dampnacyon without lesynge3,

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For my love is contrary to the love everlastynge;

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They lacked no fayre spekynge;
But all forsake me in the endynge.
Than wente I to my Goodes, that I loved best,
In hope to have comforte, but there had I
leest;

| For my Goodes sharpely dyd me tell
That he bryngeth many in to hell.
Than of my selfe I was ashamed,
And so I am worthy to be blamed.

But yf thou had me loved moderately durynge Thus may I well my selfe hate.

As to the poore gyve parte of me,

Than sholdest thou not in this dolour be,
Nor in this grete sorowe and care.

Of whome shall I now counseyll take?
I thynke that I shall never spede
Tyll that I go to my Good-dede.

EVERYMAN. Lo, now was I deceyved or I But, alas, she is so weke

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GOODES. Therfore to thy soule Good is a And you do by me14 that journay with you wyl!

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EVERYMAN. Therefore I come to you my But, I pray you, gyve me cognycyon+

moone to make.

I pray you that ye wyll go with me.
GOOD-DEDES. I wolde full fayne, but I can
not stande veryly.

EVERYMAN.

you fall?

Why, is there ony thynge on

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Where dwelleth that holy man Confessyon?
KNOWLEDGE. In the hous of salvacyon;
We shall fynde hym in that place,
That shall us comforte by Goddes grace.-
Lo, this is Confessyon; knele downe, & aske
mercy,

GOOD-DEDES. Ye, syr, I may thanke you of For he is in good conceyte5 with God almyghty.
all.
O gloryous fountayne that all
unclennes doth claryfy,

If ye had parfytely chered1 me,

Your boke of counte full redy had be.

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EVERY MAN.

Wasshe fro me the spottes of vyce unclene,

Loke, the bokes of your workes and dedes eke That on me no synne may be sene;

A se how they lye under the fete,

To your soules hevynes.

EVERYMAN. Our Lord Jesus, helpe me,

For one letter here I can not se.

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I come with Knowlege for my redempeyon,
Redempte with herte and full contrycyon,
For I am commaunded a pylgrymage to take,
And grete accountes before God to make.

GOOD-DEDES. There is a blynde rekenynge in Now I praye you, Shryftes, moder of sal

tyme of dystress.

EVERYMAN.

vacyon,

Good-dedes, I praye you helpe Helpe my good dedes for my pyteous ex

me in this nede,

Or elles I am for ever dampned in dede; 510
Therfore helpe me to make rekenynge
Before the Redemer of all thynge,

That kynge is, and was, and ever shall.

clamacyon.

CONFESSYON. I knowe your sorowe well,
Everyman:

Bycause with Knowlege ye come to me,

I wyll you comforte as well as I can;

GOOD-DEDES. Everyman, I am sory of your And a precyous jewell I wyll gyve the,

fall,

And fayne wolde I helpe you, and I were

able.

EVERYMAN. Good-dedes, your counseyll

pray you gyve me.

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GOOD-DEDES. That shall I do veryly,
Thoughe that on my fete I may not go.
I have a syster that shall with you also,
Called Knowledge, whiche shall with you abyde.
To help you to make that dredefull rekenynge.
KNOWLEDGE. Everyman, I wyll go with the,
and be thy gyde,

In thy moost nede to go by thy syde.
EVERYMAN. In good condycyon I am now in
every thynge,

And am hole content with this good thynge,
Thanked by God my creature3.

GOOD-DEDES.

there,

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Here shall you receyve that scourge of me
Whiche is penaunce stronge that ye must en-
dure,

To remembre thy Savyour was scourged for the
With sharpe scourges, and suffred it pacyently;
So must thou, or thou scape that paynful
pylgrymage.-

Knowledge, kepe hym in this vyage,
And by that tyme Good-dedes wyll be with
the:

But in ony wyse be seker of mercy,

For your tyme draweth fast; and ye wyll saved be,

And whan he hath brought you Aske God merey, and he wyll graunte truely: Whan with the scourge of penaunce man doth hym bynde,

Where thou shalte hele the of thy smarte.

Than go you with your rekenynge and your

good dedes togyder,

For to make you joyfull at herte

Before the blessyd Trynyte.

EVERYMAN. My Good-dedes, gramercy; I am well content certaynly

With your wordes swete.

KNOWLEDGE. Now go we togyder lovyngly To Confessyon, that clensynge ryvere.

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The oyle of forgyvenes than shall he fynde.
EVERYMAN. Thanked be God for his gracyous
werke,

For now I wyll my penaunce begyn;
This hath rejoysed and lyghted my herte,
Though the knottes be paynfull and harde
within.

KNOWLEDGE. Everyman, loke your penaunce
that ye fulfyll,

EVERYMAN. For joy I wepe: I wolde we What payne that ever it to you be;

were there;

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Receyve my prayers; unworthy in this hevy God seeth thy lyvynge in his trone above; lyfe

Though I be, a synner moost abhomynable,

Yet let my name be wryten in Moyses table.3
O Mary, praye to the maker of all thynge
Me for to helpe at my endynge,
And save me fro the power of my enemy;
For Deth assayleth me strongly:

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Put on this garment to thy behove",
Whiche is wette with your teres,
Or elles before God you may it mysse,
Whan ye to your journeys ende come shall.
EVERYMAN. Gentyll Knowledge, what do ye
it call?

KNOWLEDGE. It is a garmente of sorowe,

And, Lady, that I may by meane of thy prayer Fro payne it wyll you borowe7;

Of your sones glory to be partynere,

By the meanes of his passyon, I it crave;
I beseche you, helpe my soule to save!-
Knowledge, gyve me the scourge of penaunce,
My flesshe therwith shall gyve acqueyntaunce;
I wyll now begyn, yf God gyve me grace.
KNOWLEDGE. Everyman, God gyve you tyme
and space;

Contrycyon it is,

That getteth forgyvenes,

He pleasyth God passynge well.

GOOD-DEDES. Everyman, wyll you were it for
your heles?
EVERYMAN.

sone,

Now blessyd be Jesu, Maryes

For now have I on true contrycyon,

Thus I bequeth you in the handes of our And lette us go now without taryenge.—
Savyour;

Now may you make your rekenynge sure. 610
EVERY MAN. In the name of the holy Trynyte
My body sore punysshyd shall be,
Take this, body, for the synne of the flesshe;
Also thou delytest to go gay and fresshe;
And in the way of dampnacyon thou dyd me
brynge;

Therfore suffre now strokes of punysshynge;
Now of penaunce I wyll wade the water clere,
To save me from purgatory, that sharpe fyre.
GOOD-DEDES. I thanke God, now I can walke

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Good-dedes, have we clere our rekenynge?
GOOD-DEDES. Ye, in dede, I have here.
EVERYMAN. Than I trust we nede not fere.
Now, frendes, let us not parte in twayne.
KYNREDE.9 Nay, Everyman, that wyll we not
certayne.

GOOD-DEDES. Yet must thou led10 with t
Thre persones of grete myght.

EVERYMAN. Who sholde they be?
GOOD-DEDES. Dyscrecyon and Strength they
hyght11,

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And thy Beaute may not abyde behynde.
KNOWLEDGE. Also ye must call to mynde
Your Fyve-wyttes12, as for your counseylours.
GOOD-DEDES. You must have them redy at
all houres.

EVERYMAN. Howe shall I gette them hyder?

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KYNREDE. You must call them all togyder, And they wyll here you in contynent1.

And receyve of him in ony wyse

The holy sacrament and oyntement togyder,

EVERYMAN. My frendes, come hyder, and be Than shortly se ye tourne agayne hyder,
We wyll all abyde you here.

present,

Dyscrecyon, Strengthe, my Fyve-wyttes and
Beaute.

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GOOD-DEDES. That ye wolde with Everyman go, And helpe hym in his pylgrymage.

Advyse you, wyll ye with him or not in that vyage?

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FYVE-WYTTES. Ye, Everyman, hye you that

ye redy were7.

There is no Emperour, King, Duke, ne Baron
That of God hath commycyon

As hath the leest preest in the worlde beynges;
For of the blessyd sacramentes pure and
benynge

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He bereth the keyes, and thereof hath the cure.
For mannes redempcyon it is ever sure
Whiche God for our soules medycyne
Gave us out of his herte with grete payne.
Here in this transytory lyfe, for the and me

STRENGTHE. We wyll brynge hym all thyder
To his helpe and comforte, ye may beleve me.
DYSCRECYON. So wyll we go with hym all
Almyghty God, loved myght The blessyd sacramentes vii. there be:

togyder. EVERYMAN.

thou be;

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And my Good-dedes, with Knowledge clere,
All be in my company at my wyll here;
I desyre no more to my besynes,
STRENGTHE. And I, Strength, wyll by you
stande in dystres,

Though thou wolde in batayle fyght on the
ground.
FYVE-WYTTES.

And though it were thrugh

the worlde rounde,
We wyll not departe for swete ne soure,
BEAUTE. No more wyll I unto dethes houre,
What so ever therof befall.

DYSCRECYON. Everyman, advyse you fyrst of
all,

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Go with a good advysement and delyberacyon.
We all gyve you vertuous monyeyon3
That all shall be well.

Baptym, confyrmacyon, with preesthode good, And the sacrament of Goddes preeyous flesshe and blod,

Maryage, the holy extreme unceyon10 and pen

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God wyll you to salvacyon brynge,
For preesthode excedeth all other tyng
To us holy scrypture they do teche,
And converteth man fro synne, heven to reche;
God hath to them more power gyven
Than to ony aungell that is in heven.
With v. wordes he may consecrate
Goddes body in flesshe and blode to make,
And handeleth his Maker bytwene his handes.

EVERYMAN. My frendes, harken what I wyll The preest byndeth and unbyndeth all bandes tell;

I praye God rewarde you in his heven spere.
Now herken all that be here,

For I wyll make my testament
Here before you all present;

Both in erthe and in heven.

Thou mynystres11 all the sacramentes seven.
Though we kysse thy fete thou were worthy.
Thou arte surgyon that cureth synne deedly.
No remedy we fynde under God

In almes, halfe my good I wyll gyve with my Bute all onely preesthode.
handes twayne

Every man, God gave preest that dygnyte

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In the way of charyte with good entent, 700 And setteth them in his stede amonge us to And the other halfe styll shall remayne

In queth to be retourned there it ought
to be.

This I do in despyte of the fende of hell,
To go quyte out of his perell

Ever after and this daye.

be. Thus be they above aungelles in degree. KNOWLEDGE. If preestes be good, it is so

suerly,

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But whan Jesu hanged on the crosse with grete smarte,

KNOWLEDGE. Everyman, herken what I saye; There he gave out of his blessyd herte Go to presthode I you advyse,

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GOOD-DEDES. Me thynke, it is he in dede. EVERYMAN. Now Jesu be your alder spede+! I have receyved the sacrament for my redempeyon,

BEAUTE. And what, sholde I smoder here? EVERYMAN. Ye, by my fayth, and never more appere!

In this worlde lyve no more we shall,
But in heven before the hyest Lorde of all.
BEAUTE. I crosse out all this! adewe, by
saynt Johan!

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I take my tappe9 in my lappe, and am gone. EVERYMAN. What, Beaute, whyder wyll ye? BEAUTE. Peas! I am defe, loke not behynde me,

Not and thou woldest gyve me all the golde in thy chest.

EVERYMAN. Alas! whereto may I truste? Beaute gothe fast awaye fro me.

She promysed with me to lyve and dye. STRENGTHE. Everyman, I wyll the also forsake and denye,

Thy game lyketh10 me not at all. EVERYMAN. Why than ye wyll forsake me all!

Swete Strength, tary a lytell space.

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And than myne extreme unccyon.
Blessyd be all they that counseyled me to take I wyll hye me from the fast,

STRENGTHE. Nay, syr, by the rode of grace,

it!

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Though thou wepe to11 thy herte to brast12. EVERYMAN. Ye wolde ever byde by me, ye sayd.

STRENGTHE. Ye, I have you ferre13 ynoughe conveyde.

Ye be olde ynoughe, I understande,
Your pylgrymage to take on hande.

I go before there I wolde be. God be your I repent me, that I hyder came. gyde.

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STRENGTH. Everyman, we wyll not fro you go Tyll we have done this vyage longe. DYSCRECYON. I, Dyscrecyon, wyll byde by you also.

EVERYMAN. Strength, you to dysplease I am

to blame;

Wyll ye breke promyse that is dette11? STRENGTHE. In fayth, I care not! Thou arte but a foole to complayne;

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KNOWLEDGE. And though this pylgrymage be You spende your speche, and wast your brayne;

never so stronges

I wyll never parte you fro.

Everyman, I wyll be as sure by the

As ever I dyde by Judas Machabee7.

Go, thryst 15 the into the grounde!

EVERYMAN. I had wende16 surer I shulde

you have founde:

He that trusteth in his Strength,

EVERYMAN. Alas! I am so faynt I may not She hym deceyveth at the length;

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