Everyman :

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Everyman :
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Anonymous
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Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press
1961
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"Everyman :." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/Everyman. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

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Scene 10

Good Dedes.
Here I lye, colde in the grounde. Line 486 Thy synnes hath me sore bounde, Line 487 That I can not stere. Line 488
Eueryman.
O Good Dedes, I stande in fere! Line 489 I must you pray of counseyll, Line 490 For help now sholde come ryght well. Line 491
Good Dedes.
Eueryman, I haue vnderstandynge Line 492 That ye be somoned a-counte to make Line 493 Before Myssyas, of Iherusalem kynge; Line 494 And you do by me, that iournay with you wyll I take. Line 495
Eueryman.
Therfore I come to you my moone to make. Line 496 I praye you that ye wyll go with me. Line 497
Good Dedes.
I wolde full fayne, but I can not stande, veryly. Line 498
Ereryman.
Why, is there ony thynge on you fall? Line 499
Goode Dedes.
Ye, syr, I may thanke you of all. Line 500 If ye had parfytely chered me, Line 501 Your boke of counte full redy had be. Line 502 Loke, the bokes of your workes and dedes eke Line 503 Ase how they lye vnder the fete, Line 504 To your soules heuynes. Line 505
Eueryman.
Our Lorde Iesus help me! Line 506 For one letter here I can not se. Line 507
Good Dedes.
There is a blynde rekenynge in tyme of dystres. Line 508
Eueryman.
Good Dedes, I praye you helpe me in this nede, Line 509 Or elles I am for euer dampned in dede; Line 510 Therfore helpe me to make rekenynge Line 511 Before the Redemer of all thynge, Line 512 That Kynge is, and was, and euer shall. Line 513
Good Dedes.
Eueryman, I am sory of your fall, Line 514 And fayne wolde I help you, and I were able. Line 515
Eueryman.
Good Dedes, your counseyll I pray you gyue me. Line 516

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Good Dedes.
That shall I do veryly. Line 517 Thoughe that on my fete I may not go, Line 518 I haue a syster that shall with you also, Line 519 Called Knowlege, whiche shall with you abyde, Line 520 To helpe you to make that dredefull rekenynge. Line 521
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