Enforce you, therefore, His creatures each one To honour your Maker with humble obeisance-- Namely, thou man! I speak to thee alone Before all other, as chief of His creance. Think how He hath made thee this semblance; Pluck up thine heart, and hold thine head upright; And evermore have heaven in thy sight. Ovid in his book, cleped _The Transformation_, Among all other his fables and poesies Maketh special mention of thy creation; Showing how God wondrously gan devise When He thee made, and gave to thee th' emprise Of all this world, and feoffed thee with all As chief possessioner of things mortal. In token whereof He gave thee upright visage; And gave thee in commandment to lift thine eye Up toward heaven, only for that usage Thou shouldest know Him for thy Lord Almighty, All other beasts as things unworthy; To behold th' earth with grovelling countenance; And be subdued to thine obeisance. But, as touching the cause specially Wherefore I have ordained thee this night to appear, It is to put thee in knowledge and memory To what intent thou art ordained to be here. I let thee wit thou art a passenger That hast to do a great and long voyage, And through the world must be thy passage. Address thyself now towards this journey; For, as now thou shalt no longer here abide, Lo! here Reason to govern thee in thy way, And Sensuality upon thine other side. But Reason I depute to be thy chief guide, With Innocency that is thy tender nourice; Evermore to wean thee from th' appetite of vice.