Becomes my flesh through your belief,
And doth release your sinful band.
And whosoever eateth that bread
In sin or wicked life,
He receiveth his own death,
I warn both man and wife.
Three personages other than actors sometimes occupied the stage—a Preco or page, an expositor, and a messenger. They all three appear in the play of The Histories of Lot and Abraham. The page appears on the “pageant carriage” immediately after the play of Noah’s Flood, and says:—
All lordings that be here present,
And hearken me with good intent,
How Noah away from us he went,