COUSIN. Cousin Everyman, farewell now! For verily I will not go with you. Also of my own an unready reckoning I have to account, therefore I make tarrying. Now God keep thee! for now I go. EVERYMAN. Ah, Jesus! is all come hereto? Lo! fair words maketh fools fain! They promise, and nothing will do, certain! My kinnesmen promised me faithfully For to abide with me steadfastly, And now fast away do they flee; Even so Fellowship promised me. What friend were best me of to provide? I lose my time here longer to abide. Yet in my mind a thing there is-- All my life I have loved riches; If that my Good now help me might, It would make my heart full light. I will speak to him in this distress: Where art thou, my Goods and Riches? GOODS. Who calleth me? Everyman? what! hast thou haste? I lie here in corners, trussed and piled so high, And in chests I am locked full fast, Also sacked in bags--thou mayst see with thine eye-- I cannot stir; in packs low I lie. What would ye have? lightly me say. EVERYMAN. Come hither, Good, in all the haste thou may, For of counsel I must desire thee. GOODS. Sir, and ye in the world have trouble or adversity, Then can I help you to remedy shortly. EVERYMAN. It is another disease that grieveth me; In this world it is not--I tell so-- I am sent for, another way to go, To give a strait account general Before the highest Jupiter of all. And all my life I have had joy and pleasure in thee, Therefore, I pray thee, go with me; For peradventure thou mayest, before God Almighty, My reckoning help to clean and purify; For it is said, ever among, That money maketh all right that is wrong. GOODS. Nay, Everyman, I sing another song! I follow no man in such voyages, For and I went with thee, Thou should'st fare much the worse for me; For because on me thou did set thy mind, Thy reckoning I have made blotted and blind, That thine account thou cannot make truly, And that hast thou for the love of me. EVERYMAN. That would grieve me full sore, When I should come to that fearful answer. Up! let us go thither together! GOODS. Nay, not so! I am too brittle, I may not endure; I will follow no man one foot, be thou sure. EVERYMAN. Alas! I have thee loved, and had great pleasure All my life's days on good and treasure. GOODS. That is to thy damnation, without leasing, For my love is contrary to the love everlasting; But if thou had me loved moderately, during, As to the poor to give part for me, Then shouldest thou not in this dolour be, Nor in this great sorrow and care. EVERYMAN. Lo now! I was deceived or I was ware! And all I may wyte my spending of time. GOODS. What! weenest thou that I am thine? EVERYMAN. I had weened so.