EVERYMAN.
I shall show you how it is:
Commanded I am to go a journey,
A long way, hard and dangerous;
And give a strait account without delay
Before the High Judge Adonai;[81]
Wherefore, I pray you, bear me company,
As ye have promised in this journey.
FELLOWSHIP.
That is matter indeed; promise is duty;
But, and I should take such a voyage on me,
I know it well, it should be to my pain:
Also it make me afeard certain.
But let us take counsel here as well as we can,
For your words would fear a strong man.
EVERYMAN.
Why, ye said, if I had need,
Ye would me never forsake, quick ne dead,
Though it were to hell truly.
FELLOWSHIP.
So I said certainly;
But such pleasures be set aside, the sooth to say,
And also if ye took such a journey,
When should we come again?
EVERYMAN.
Nay, never again till the day of doom.