This memory all men may have in mind; Ye hearers, take it of worth, old and young, And forsake pride, for he deceiveth you in the end, And remember Beauty, Five Wits, Strength, and Discretion, They all at last do Everyman forsake, Save his Good Deeds; [them he] there doth take: But beware, for, and they be small, Before God he hath no help at all; None excuse may be there for Everyman: Alas, how shall he do then? For after death amends may no man make, For then mercy and pity doth him forsake; If his reckoning be not clear, when he doth come, God will say, _Ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum_; And he that hath his account whole and sound, High in heaven he shall be crowned; Unto which place God bring us all thither, That we may live body and soul together; Thereto help the Trinity: Amen, say ye, for Saint Charity.[108] FINIS. HICKSCORNER. _EDITIONS_. _Hyckescorner. [At the end:] Enprynted by me Wynkyn de Worde. 4°, Black letter. Hycke scorner. [At the end:] Thus endeth the enterlude of Hycke scorner. Imprinted at London in foster laene by John Waley. 4°, Black letter_. HICKSCORNER. This piece is printed from a black letter copy in Mr Garrick's collection,[109] of which the following is a very accurate analysis, extracted from Dr Percy's "Relics of Ancient English Poetry," vol. i. p. 130:-- "Hickscorner bears no distant resemblance to comedy: its chief aim seems to be to exhibit characters and manners, its plot being much less regular than the foregoing. The prologue is spoken by Pity, represented under the character of an aged pilgrim; he is joined by Contemplation and Perseverance, two holy men who, after lamenting the degeneracy of the age, declare their resolution of stemming the torrent. Pity then is left upon the stage, and presently found by Freewill, representing a lewd debauchee who, with his dissolute companion, Imagination, relate their manner of life, and not without humour describe the stews and other places of base resort. They are presently joined by Hickscorner, who is drawn as a libertine returned from travel, and agreeably to his name scoffs at religion. These three are described as extremely vicious, who glory in every act of wickedness. At length two of them quarrel, and Pity endeavours to part the fray; on this they fall upon him, and put him into the stocks, and then leave him. Pity then descants in a kind of lyric measure on the profligacy of the age, and in this situation is found by Perseverance and Contemplation, who set him at liberty, and advise him to go in search of the delinquents. As soon as he is gone, Freewill appears again, and after relating in a very comic manner some of his rogueries and escapes from justice, is rebuked by the two holy men who, after a long altercation, at length convert him and his libertine companion, Imagination, from their vicious course of life, and then the play ends with a few verses from Perseverance, by way of epilogue.