Thise lawes that thou has late here laide I shalle thym lere not to alow,[589] If thay myn take[590] thay ar betraide, And I shalle turne thym tytte I trow.[591] I shalle walk eest, I shalle walk west, And gar theym wyrk welle war.[592] _Jesus._ Nay feynde, thou shalbe feste,[593] That thou shalle flyt no far.[594] _Sathanas._ Feste? fy! that were a wykyd treson! Belamy, thou shalle be smytt.[595] _Jesus._ Deville, I commaunde the to go downe Into thi sete where thou shalle syt. _Sathanas._ Alas! for doylle[596] and care, I synk into helle pyt. _Rybald._ Sir Sathanas, so saide I are,[597] Now shalle thou have a fytt. _Jesus._ Com now furthe, my childer alle, I forgyf you youre mys;[598] Withe me now go ye shalle To joy and endles blys. _Adam._ Lord, thou art fulle mekylle of myght,[599] That mekys thi self on this manere, To help us alle as thou had us hight, When bothe frofett I and my fere;[600] Here have we dwelt withoutten light Four thousand and six hundreth yere, Now se we by this solempne sight How that mercy makes us dere. _Eva._ Lord, we were worthy more tornamentes[601] to tast,[602] Thou help us lord of thy mercy, as thou of myght is mast.[603] _Johannes._ Lord, I love the inwardly, That me wold make thi messyngere, Thi commyng in erthe to cry, And teche thi fayth to folk in fere;[604] Sythen before the forto dy,[605] To bryng theym bodword[606] that be here, How thay shuld have thi help in hy, Now se I alle those poyntes appere. _Moyses._ David, thi prophette trew, Of tymes told unto us; Of thi commyng he knew, And saide it shuld be thus. _David._ As I said ere yit say I so, _Ne derelinquas, domine, Animam meam in inferno_;[607] Leyfe never my saulle, Lord, after the, In depe helle whedur[608] dampned shalle go Suffre thou never thi sayntes to se The sorrow of thaym that won in wo,[609] Ay, fulle of fylthe, and may not fle.[610] _Moyses._ Make myrthe bothe more and les, And love oure lord we may, That has broght us fro bytternes In blys to abyde for ay. _Ysaias._ Therfor now let us syng To love oure lord Jesus, Unto his blys he wille us bryng, _Te Deum laudamus._ THE INTERLUDE OF "GOD'S PROMISES" BY JOHN BALE CHARACTERS Pater Cœlestis _The Heavenly Father_ Adam Primus Homo _Adam, the First Man_ Justus Noah _Just Noah_ Abraham Fidelis _Faithful Abraham_ Moses Sanctus _Saint Moses_ David Rex Pius _The Pious King, David_ Esaias Propheta _The Prophet Isaiah_ Baleus Prolocutor _John Bale, who speaks the Prologue_ GOD'S PROMISES _A Tragedy or interlude manifesting the chief promises of God unto man by all ages in the old law, from the Fall of Adam to the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Compiled by John Bale, (Anno Domini MDXXXVIII.)._