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Six anonoymous plays. First series (c. 1510-1537)
Six anonoymous plays First series - c. 1510-1537 Author:John Stephen Farmer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [Reduced Facsimile of Title-page of Copy of Everyman originally in Library of Lincoln Cathedral.] [Reduced Facsimile of Woodcuts in Copy of Everyman origi... more »nally in Library of Lincoln Cathedral.] SEfje 3Plager0' Messenger God Death Everyman Fellowship Kindred Goods Good Deeds Knowledge Confession Beauty Strength Discretion Five Wits Angel Doctor [For Facsimile Title-page and page of Woodcuts in original Copy see pages 89 and 91.] THE SUMMONING OF EVERYMAN HERE BEGINNETH A TREATISE HOW THE HIGH FATHER OF HEAVEN SENDETH DEATH TO SUMMON EVERY CREATURE TO COME AND GIVE ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIVES IN THIS WORLD, AND IS IN MANNER OF A MORAL PLAY. I pray you all give your audi- And hear this matter with reverence, [ence, 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 wonders precious, j But the intent, of it is more gracious, i And sweet to bear away. story saith : man, in the beginning ook well, and take good heed to the ending, you never so gay : [e think sin in the beginning full sweet, /hich in the end causeth thy soul to weep, Vhen the body lieth in clay, lere shall you see how Fellowship and Jollity, Joth Strength, Pleasure, and Beauty, 7ill fade from thee as flower in May; For ye shall hear, how our Heaven King Calleth Everyman to a general reckonij Give audience, and hear what he doth say. [God speaketh.] 1 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, [God; Drowned in sin, they knew me not for their In worldly riches is all their mind, They fear not my rightwiseness, the sharp rod; My law that I showed, when I for them d...« less