#five-wits

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01 - Five-Wits

From: Everyman

Genre: Morality

Topic: Religion

Character: Neutral

Yea, Everyman, hie you that ye ready were, There is no emperor, king, duke, ne baron, That of God hath commission, As hath the least priest in the world being; He beareth the keys and thereof hath the cure For man’s redemption, it is ever sure; Which God for our soul’s medicine Gave us out of his heart with great pine; Here in this transitory life, for thee and me The blessed sacraments seven there be, Baptism, confirmation, with priesthood good, And the sacrament of God’s precious flesh and blood, Marriage, the holy extreme unction, and penance; Gracious sacraments of high divinity.

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02 - Five-Wits

From: Everyman

Genre: Morality

Topic: God, power, forgiveness

Character: Neutral

Everyman, that is the best that ye can do: God will you to salvation bring, For priesthood exceedeth all other things; To us Holy Scripture they do teach. And converteth man from sin heaven to reach; God hath to them more power given, Than to any angel that is in heaven; With five words he may consecrate God’s body in flesh and blood to male, And handleth his maker between his hands; The priest bindeth and unbindeth all bands, Both in earth and in heaven; Thou ministers all the sacraments seven; Though we kissed thy feet thou were worthy; Thou art surgeon that cureth sin deadly; No remedy we find under God But all only priesthood. Everyman, God gave priests that dignity, And setteth them in his stead amount us to be; Thus be they above angels in degree