Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

KNOWLEDGE

in Everyman

Metadata

PlayEveryman
Year (catalogued)1535
Decade1530s
Speech prefix(es)Knowlege
Words490
Characters2457
Typicality0.23 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA00471
ClusterCluster 14 — Law & judgment

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Full speech

¶Everyman I will go with the / and be thy guide In thy most need to go by thy side ¶Now go we thither lovingly To confession that cleansing ryuere ¶In the house of salvation We shall find him in that place That shall us comforte by gods grace Lo this is confession / knee down & ask mercy For he is in good conceit with God almighty ¶Everyman your penance look that you fulfil What pain that ever it to you be And knowledge will gyve you council at will How your account you shall make crelery ¶Every man / God gyve you time and space Thus I bequeath you in the would ̄ des of our saviour Thus may you make your reckoning sure ¶Now everyman be merry and glad your good deeds do come you may not be sad Now is your good deeds hold and sound Going upright upon the ground ¶Be no more sad / but ever more rejoice God sees thy living in his Throne above Put on this garment / to thy behoove Which with your teres is no wall weet Lest before God / it be unsweet When you to your journeys end cume shall ¶It is the garment of sorrow From pain it will you borrow Contrition it is That gets forgiveness It pleasyth God passing well ¶Also you must call to mind your five wits / as for your councillors ¶Everyman Harken what I say Go to pryesthode I you advise And receive of him in any wise The holy sacrament / and ointment to together Than shortly see you turn again hither We will all abide you here. ¶If priests be good it is so surely But when Jesu hinge on y e cross w to 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 does say That Jesus curse hath all they Which God their saviour do buy or fell Or they for any money do take or tell Sinful priests gyveth the sinners example bade Their children sitteth by other me ̄ nes fires I have herd. And some haunteth women's company With unclean life as lusts of lechery These be with sin made blind ¶And though this pilgrimage be never so strong I will never part you from Everyman I will be as sure by the As ever I did by Judas machabe ¶you everyman when you to death do go But not yet for no manner of daungere ¶Nay yet I will not from hens depart Till I see where you shall become ¶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