I remind you, O my brethren, and my children, and my friends, that ye forget me not when ye beseech the Lord. I pray, I ask, I make entreaty that ye keep these words in memory, and bewail me day and night. I speak to you as Job did to his friends, O sit ye down to say again the _Alleluia_. Forsaking all things we depart, and naked and abhorrent we become; for comeliness doth fade away as grass, but only do we men delude ourselves. Thou naked, wretched one, wast born, and altogether naked there shalt stand! Then be not prodigal in life, O man; but only always sigh with wailing, _Alleluia_. If thou, O man, art merciful to man, he there shall mercy have to show to thee; and if to any orphan hast been kind, he there shall thee deliver out of need; if thou in life the naked clothed hast, he there shall clothing have to put on thee, and sing the psalm, the _Alleluia_. The way is evil whereby I depart, and therein so I never went; that country also is unknown, where me none recognize at all. ’Tis fearful them to see who dreadfully are led, and him who me hath call’d, who ruleth life and death, and there us biddeth when he willeth. _Alleluia._ If from some country we depart, we of some guides have need. What shall we do, and whither go, that country in, where we are quite unknown? To thee will then be needful many guides, and many prayers to go with thee to save thy wretched soul, ere it attain to Christ, and say to him, the _Alleluia_. They that to lusts material subject are, in nowise have forgiveness there: there terrible accusers are, and there too opened are the books. Then where, O man, wilt thou glance round? or who will there then thee assist? save thou in life hast wrought some good, or done some kindness to the poor, singing the _Alleluia_. Both youth and bodily beauty fade away in time of death, and then in painful wise is parch’d the tongue, and, dried up, is scorch’d the throat, then quenched is the beauty of the eyes, all chang’d the beauty of the face, the beauty of the neck is spoil’d, and what remaineth silent is to say ofttimes the _Alleluia_. Keep silence then, keep silence: O ye survivors, be ye still before him lying there, and contemplate the mystery great; for fearful is the hour. Hush, that the soul may go in peace; for it endureth anguish great, and in much fear beseecheth God with _Alleluia_. I have seen an infant dying, and for my life have wept; for it was altogether scar’d, and, when its hour came, trembling cried, O father, help me; mother, save me! and none sufficient was to help it then: they only griev’d beholding, and in the grave bewail’d it. _Alleluia._ How many on a sudden have been taken from their bridal to the grave, betroth’d been with an everlasting troth, have costless made the dirge, and from the chamber have not risen; but together there was marriage and the grave, together troth and parting, together laughter and the wail, yea, and the psalm, the _Alleluia_.