FREEWILL.
Amend yet for my sake,
It is better betime than too late;
How say you? will you God's hests fulfil?
IMAGINATION.
I will do, sir, even as you will;
But, I pray you, let me have a new coat,
When I have need, and in my purse a groat,
Then will I dwell with you still.
FREEWILL.
Beware, for when thou art buried in the ground,
Few friends for thee will be found,
Remember this still.
IMAGINATION.
No thing dread I so sore as death,
Therefore to amend I think it be time;
Sin have I used all the days of my breath,
With pleasure, lechery, and misusing,[165]
And spent amiss my five wits; therefore I am sorry:
Here of all my sins I axe God mercy.
PERSEVERANCE.
Hold, here is a better clothing for thee,
And look that thou forsake thy folly;
Be steadfast, look that thou fall never.