Everyman Script - Our Interpretation

Jester [Clowns-Introduction.]

I pray you all give audience,

For our play is a moral play.

The summoning of everyman

And doth of our lives and ending show.

Look well, take heed

To thy ending,

For sin, though in the beginning so sweet,

Yet doth cause in the end for the soul to weep,

When the body lieth in clay.

How will fade from thee as flowers in may,

Thy strength and thy beauty, thy pleasure and folly,

When thou art called to a reckoning,

Like everyman, to out heavenly King.

Give audience and hear our play.

God's messenger comes,

List to what he doth say.

Gabriel

I, Gabriel am, God's messenger am I.

Here on earth for yet this little time,

I see how all His creatures

Be to their God unkind.

Drowned in sin, in worldly riches is all their mind,

They fear no more His anger, the sharp rod

Man, on this earth, forgetteh his God.

So therefore now, with all the speed he can,

God will a reckoning take of everyman!

Death

Here am I, Death. Come at your will.

Here am I, Death. Come at your will.

God's every commandment to fulfil.

I will claim everyman that liveth ill,

That dreadeth not folly, nor fears God's will,

And he that loves riches I will strike with my dart.

In hell shall he dwell, world without end.

Death

I see everyman walking,

Little he think of my coming.

Everyman stand still!

In great haste I am sent to thee,

From God out of his Majesty.

A reckoning from thee He must have,

Thy many bad deeds, and good but a few

I am death that all men dreadeth

Thy God, thy life and deeds to show

Thee with me on a journey must go

I care not for gold, nor silver, nor riches,

Nor pope, nor emperor, king nor princes.

Thee must get thee gone on thy journey today.

Everyman

Oh Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind.

A thousand pounds and more thou shall have,

If thou comest to me on another day.

Death

This is the day,

That no man living may escape away.

Everyman

To whom were it best my sorrow to show?

Everyman

What if to Fellowship I should speak?

We have in the world for many a day

Been most good friends in sport and play.

I trust he will bear me company,

Well met, good Fellowship, and good morrow!

Fellowship

Everyman, good morrow to thee this day!

Why lookst thou so piteously?

If anything be amiss, tell me, I pray,

That I may help find remedy.

My true friend

I will not forsake thee.

Everyman

That was well spoken and lovingly.

Fellowship

If any have wronged you, ye shall revenged be,

Though I on the ground be slain for thee.

Everyman

Commanded I am to go a long way,

A journey hard and dangerous,

And give account without delay,

Before almighty God, my Lord.

Wherefore I pray you bear me company,

As you have promised on this journey.

Fellowship

This is another matter,

Promise is duty, true.

Everyman

And, Fellowship thou didst promise!

Fellowship

But if such a journey I should go,

I know it well, it would be to my woe.

And when, my friend, should we come again?

Everyman

Till the Day of Doom, never again.

Fellowship

In faith then, I will not come there!

For no man that is living today.

Will I go on that fearful way!

Everyman

Oh, Fellowship, you swore by God's head,

You

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