Everyman; . NEW YORK ©uffielD anD Company 1907 Copyright, 1903By Fox, Duffield and Company Published, April, 1903 Reprinted, September, 1903 October, 1904 Published by Duffield & Company, Successors March, 1907 University Press • John ^Vi!sonand Son • , Bramatis ^ersonae iHrsoeiTCjcr (Bttats mccti^ <Bi0tr mnaMt^Qt laratft €ontcQQion drbtv^xxxnn aseautg drdltrtoofTip ^treustft mtntrretr JBi^cittian €ou^in Sibt^mCit^ (^aati^ ^iTCjel I30ft0r I^M E HERE BEGINNETH A TREATISE HOW THEHIGH FATHER OF HEAVEN SENDETHDEATH TO SUMMON EVERY CREATURETO COME AND GIVE ACCOUNT OF THEIRLIVES
Everyman; . NEW YORK ©uffielD anD Company 1907 Copyright, 1903By Fox, Duffield and Company Published, April, 1903 Reprinted, September, 1903 October, 1904 Published by Duffield & Company, Successors March, 1907 University Press • John ^Vi!sonand Son • , Bramatis ^ersonae iHrsoeiTCjcr (Bttats mccti^ <Bi0tr mnaMt^Qt laratft €ontcQQion drbtv^xxxnn aseautg drdltrtoofTip ^treustft mtntrretr JBi^cittian €ou^in Sibt^mCit^ (^aati^ ^iTCjel I30ft0r I^M E HERE BEGINNETH A TREATISE HOW THEHIGH FATHER OF HEAVEN SENDETHDEATH TO SUMMON EVERY CREATURETO COME AND GIVE ACCOUNT OF THEIRLIVES IN THIS WORLD, AND IS IN MAN-NER OF A MORAL PLAY. PRAY you all give your audience,And hear this matter with reverence,By figure a moral play;The Summoning of EverymanI called it is. That of our lives and ending shows,How transitory we be all day: This matter is wonders precious, But the intent of it is more gracious. And sweet to bear away. The story saith: man, in the beginning Look well, and take good heed 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. c] [ I ] Here shall you see how Fellowship and Jollity,Both Strength, Pleasure, and BeautyWill fade from thee as flower in May;For ye shall hear, how our Heaven KingCalleth Everyman to a general reckoning:Give audience, and hear what he doth say. ©foU speakethI perceive here in my MajestyHow that all creatures be to me unkind,Living without dread in worldly prosperity:Of ghostly sight the people be so in sin, they knew^ me not for their God;In worldly riches is all th
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