Everyman (play)

Everyman, or The Somonyng of Everyman, is an anonymous English morality play, closely related to the Dutch play Elckerlijc. Most scholars now believe Everyman to have been translated around 1500 from the Dutch version. Quotes O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind. Everyman, line 119 The tyde abydeth no man. Death, line 143 Death: What, wenest thou thy lyfe is gyven theeAnd thy wordely gooddes also?Everyman: I had wende so, verely.Death: Ney, nay, it was but lend thee,For as sone as thou arte goAnother a whyle shall have it, and than go therfroEven as thou hast done.Everyman, thou arte mad, that hast thy wyttes fiveAnd here on erth wyll not amende thy lyve,For sodenly I do cume. Line 161 Loo, fayre wordes maketh fooles fayne;They promyse, and nothynge wyll do certayne. Everyman, line 379 Everyman, I wyll go with thee and be thy guydeIn thy moste nede to go by thy syde. Knowledge, line 522 A modernized-spelling version of these lines serves as the motto of Everyman's Library. External links Original spelling edition of Everyman, and translation of Elckerlijc Category:Plays Category:Anonymous works