better yet...

[symbioidlj]

Everyman:
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Messenger.

1: I pray you all gyue your audyence,
2: And here this mater with reuerence,
3: By fygure a morall playe.
4: The Somonynge of Eueryman called it is,
5: That of our lyues and endynge shewes
6: How transytory we be all daye.
7: This mater is wonders precyous;
8: But the entent of it is more gracyous,
9: And swete to bere awaye.
10: The story sayth: Man, in the begynnynge
11: Loke well, and take good heed to the endynge,
12: Be you neuer so gay!
13: Ye thynke synne in the begynnynge full swete,
14: Whiche in the ende causeth the soule to wepe,
15: Whan the body lyeth in claye.
16: Here shall you se how Felawshyp/and Iolyte,
17: Bothe/Strengthe/Pleasure/and Beaute,
18: Wyll fade from the as floure in Maye;
19: For ye shall here how our Heuen Kynge
20: Calleth Eueryman to a generall rekenynge.
21: Gyue audyence, and here what he doth saye.