Now, Everyman, be merry and glad; Your Good Deeds cometh now, ye may not be sad: Now is your Good Deeds whole and sound, Going upright upon the ground. EVERYMAN. My heart is light, and shall be evermore; Now will I smite faster than I did before. GOOD DEEDS. Everyman pilgrim, my special friend, Blessed be thou without end; For thee is prepared the eternal glory: Ye have me made whole and sound, Therefore I will bide by thee in every stound. EVERYMAN. Welcome, my Good Deeds, now I hear thy voice, I weep for very sweetness of love. KNOWLEDGE. Be no more sad, but evermore rejoice, God seeth thy living in His throne above; Put on this garment to thy behove, Which with your tears is now all wet, Lest before God it be unsweet, When ye to your journey's end come shall. EVERYMAN. Gentle Knowledge, what do ye it call? KNOWLEDGE. It is the garment of sorrow, From pain it will you borrow; Contrition it is, That getteth forgiveness, It pleaseth God passing-well. GOOD DEEDS. Everyman, will you wear it for your hele?[94] EVERYMAN. Now blessed be Jesu, Mary's son; For now have I on true contrition: And let us go now without tarrying. Good Deeds, have we clear our reckoning? GOOD DEEDS. Yea, indeed, I have here. EVERYMAN. Then I trust we need not to fear; Now, friends, let us not depart in twain. KINDRED. Nay, Everyman, that will we not certain. GOOD DEEDS. Yet must thou lead with thee Three persons of great might. EVERYMAN. Who should they be? GOOD DEEDS. Discretion and Strength they hyght,[95] And thy Beauty may not abide behind. KNOWLEDGE. Also ye must call to mind Your Five Wits[96] as for your councillors. GOOD DEEDS. You must have them ready at all hours. EVERYMAN. How shall I get them hither? KINDRED. You must call them all together, And they will hear you incontinent. EVERYMAN. My friends, come hither, and be present, Discretion, Strength, my Five Wits and Beauty. BEAUTY. Here at your will we be all ready; What will ye that we should do? GOOD DEEDS. That ye would with Everyman go, And help him in his pilgrimage: Advise you, will ye go with him or not in that voyage? STRENGTH. We will bring him all thither To help and comfort him, ye may believe me. DISCRETION. So will we go with him altogether. EVERYMAN. Almighty God, loved may Thou be; I give Thee laud[97] that I have hither brought Strength, Discretion, Beauty, Five Wits: lack I nought: And my Good Deeds, with Knowledge clear, All be in my company at my will here; I desire no more to my business.[98] STRENGTH. And I Strength will by you stand in distress, Though thou wouldest in battle fight on the ground. FIVE WITS. And though it were thorow the world round, We will not depart for sweet ne for sour. BEAUTY. No more will I unto death's hour, Whatsoever thereof befall. DISCRETION. Everyman, advise you first of all, Go with a good advisement and deliberation; We all give you virtuous monition That all shall be well.