_Felawshyp._ That is mater in dede! Promyse is duty, But and I sholde take suche vyage on me, I knowe it well, it sholde be to my payne; Also it make me aferde, certayne. But let us take counsell here as well as we can, For your wordes wolde fere a stronge man. _Everyman._ Why, ye sayd, yf I had nede, Ye wolde me never forsake, quycke ne deed, Though it were to hell, truely. _Felawshyp._ So I sayd certaynely, But suche pleasures be set a syde, the sothe to saye; And also, yf we toke suche a journaye, Whan sholde we come agayne? _Everyman._ Naye, never agayne, tyll the daye of dome. _Felawshyp._ In fayth, than wyll not I come there. Who hath you these tydynges brought? _Everyman._ In dede, deth was with me here. _Felawshyp._ Now, by God that all hathe bought, If deth were the messenger, For no man that is lyvynge to daye I wyll not go that lothe journaye, Not for the fader that bygate me. _Everyman._ Ye promysed other wyse, parde. _Felawshyp._ I wote well I say so, truely, And yet yf thou wylte ete and drynke and make good chere, Or haunt to women, the lusty company, I wolde not forsake you whyle the day is clere, Trust me veryly. _Everyman._ Ye, therto ye wolde be redy: To go to myrthe, solas[41] and playe Your mynde wyll soner apply Than to bere me company in my longe journaye. The difference between the plays is clearer now. Somewhere we have met such a fellow as Fellowship; at some time we have taken part in such a conversation, and heard the gushing acquaintance of prosperous days excuse himself in the hour of trouble. But never in daily life was met so dull a creature as one of those angels, nor ever was heard conversation like theirs. Let us return to trace the change to the Interlude. Quite a short step will carry us to it.