I beshrowe your heart are you here I may doe what I will for you Infidelitie Huffa mistresse Mary are you so neare I thought otherwise I make God auowe I pray you let me haue a worde in your eare I promise you he is a mynion felowe By my faith I thought that you had ben there For I sawe when you dyd hym folow Mary ▪ By my faith Prudence you haue a false eye ▪ A body can neuer so secretely worke But that theyr daliance you will espie I trowe for the nones you lye in corners and lurke But sirra how say you to hym in the flaren beard That is a knaue that horeson wote you what he did ▪ In my life was I neuer worse afrayde When I came to bed I found him there hid Out alas quod I here is some yll spirite A swete sauour of muske and ciuet I smelt Come and lye with me Mary quod he this night Then I knew who it was when his beard I felt Infidelitie I beshrew your hearts whore thefe wer agreed You knew the spirit wel inough before you cam there I am sure that so honestly he had you feed That the reward dyd put away the feare Mary Good lord who is this that yonder doth come What meane the tables that be in his hand Infidelitie Come asyde a little and geue hym roume And what he is anone we shall vnderstand The Lawe The Lawe of God at this tyme I do represent Written with the fynger of God in tables of stone Wherby the people might know their lord omnipotēt And how that he is the Lord God alone A peculiar people to him selfe he had elected Comming of the stocke of faithfull Abraham Whom by the lawe he would haue directed After that out of Egypt from Pharao they came In me as in a glasse it doth plainly appere What God of his people doth require What the peoples duetie is they may see here Which they owe vnto God in paine of hell fyre In me is declared the same iustice Whiche vnto God is acceptable Mans synne is here shewed and proude enterprise Wherby he is conuicted to paines perdurable It was necessary and it dyd behoue Considering mans pride and temeritie Whiche was dronke and blynde in his owne loue To make a lawe to shewe his imbecillitie Except the lawe had rebuked his vanitie So much he would haue trusted in his own strength And beleued that through y e power of his humanitie He might haue obteined saluation at length Wherfore as I sayd to a glasse compared I may be Wherin clerely as in the sunne lyght The weakenesse and sinne of him self he may se Yea and his owne damnation as it is ryght For the curse of God foloweth synne alway And damnation foloweth malediction By this it appereth as cleare as the day That my office is to fyll the mynde with affliction I am a ministration of death workyng yre I shewe Gods request and mans vnabilitie I condemne hym for synne vnto eternall fyre I fynde not one iust of mans fragilitie Mary O Prudence heare you not what the law doth say Excedingly it pricketh my conscience I may crie out alas nowe and welaway For I am damned by Gods owne sentence Infidelitie Prick of cōsciēce quod she it pricketh you not so sore As the yong man with the flaxen beard dyd I thinke What a diuell about him here do you poare If euer I see any suche I pray God I synke The more you loke on him y e worse like him you shal Come away come away from him for very shame And in dede will you be gasyng on him styll If you repent not this let me suffer blame Mary O frend Prudence doe you see yonder glasse I will tell what therin I doe see I can not speake for sorowe now out alasse All men for synne by Gods sentence damned be The spirite of God speaketh by kyng Salomon That no man on earth lyueth without synne Dauid saith there is none good no not one No not a child that this day doth his life begynne Nowe synne I see requireth eternall damnation If a childe be damned that is but a day olde Alas where then shall be my habitation Whiche hath done more synnes than can be tolde The Lawe Yea woman God doth not onely prohibite the dede But he forbiddeth the lust and concupiscence Therfore thy heart hath great occasion to blede For many lustes and dedes hath defiled thy cōscience Infidelitie Body of God are you so madde him to beleue ▪ These thyngs are written to make folkes afrayde Will ye to him or to me credence geue Or to your frends by whom you wer neuer dismaid ▪ And I put case that the wordes nowe were trewe He speaketh of men but no women at all Women haue no soules this saying is not newe Men shall be damned and not women which do fall the Law By this terme man truely in holy Scripture Is vndertake both man woman and child in dede Yea as many of both kyndes as be of mans nature Whiche procede of Adam the first parents sede Enter knowledge of Sinne. By the Lawe commeth the knowledge of synne Whiche knowledge truely here I represent Whiche freate and byte the conscience within Causyng the same euermore to lament I am euermore before the conscience sight Shewyng before hym his condemnation So that by the dedes of the law or by his own might He can not attaine vnto saluation Infidelitie Lo Mary haue ye not sponne a fayre threde Here is a pocky knaue and an yll fauoured The deulll is not so euill fauoured I thinke in dede Corrupt rotten stinkyng and yll sauoured It is not possible truly to declare here Knowledge of synne The horrible lothsome and stinkyng vilitie Which before the eyes of God doth appere Committed by this wretched womans iniquitie Mary Now wo be to the time that euer I was borne I see that I am but a damned deuill in hell I know that there with diuels I shall be torne And punished with more pains than my tong can tell O blessed Lawe shew me some remedy The Prophete calleth thee immaculate and pure Thou of thy selfe in many places doest testifie That the kepers of thee are alway safe and sure He that obserueth all thyngs written in me the Law Shall liue in them as Moyses doth expresse But neuer man yet in this world I dyd see Which dyd not the contentes in me transgresse It is beyond all mans possibilitie To obserue any commaundement in me required Therby appeareth his weaknesse and fragilitie Hapned through sinne that against God he cōspired The power of the law is mans synne to declare Knowledge of synne And to shew his damnation for the same But to giue saluation for the soules welfare The lawe doth no suche promise any tyme proclame Mary If there be no more comfort in the lawe than this I wishe that the lawe had neuer ben made In God I see is small mercy and Iustice To
entangle men and snarle them in such a trade Infidelitie I can you thanke for that Mary in dede Well spoken an vniust God do you esteme Euen from the heart that sentence dyd procede Feare not their vniust God do you blaspheme You see no remedy but vtter damnation Folowe my counsell and put care away Take here your pleasure and consolation And make you mery in this worlde while you may Of one hell I would not haue you twayne to make Be sure of a heauen while you dwell here Refresh your self and al pleasure doe you take Plucke vp a lusty heart and be of a good chere Mary O this knowledge of synne is so in my syght That if I should dye truely I can not be mery Infidelitie We will ridde the knaue hence anon by this light Or else of his life I will soone make him wearie the Law O synner from thy heart put that infidelitie Which hath drowned thee already in the pit of hell Trust thou in Gods might and possibilitie Wherof neither angell nor man is able to tell Knowledge of synne That thing in dede whiche to man is impossible Is a small thyng for God to bryng to passe This mercy to all senses is comprehensible Which he will declare by his holy Messias the Law That thing which I cā not do through my infirmity God is able by his son to perform in tyme appointed All my contentes be shadowes of his maiestie Whom now in this tyme God hath anoynted Knowledge of synne That Messias alone onely shall the law fulfill And his fulfilling shall be in suche acceptation That God for his sake shall pardon mankyndes yll Acceptyng his offeryng for a full contentation the Law That Messias is the stone spoken of before Which of vayne builders should be refused Yet he shall be the corner stone of honour Which in the building of gods tēple shal be vsed And all that trust in hym with true beleue Knowledge of Sinne. That he is very God and man into this world sent God will all their synnes for his sake forgeue So that they can be contrite and repent Mary I euer beleued yet vnto this day That God was able of nothyng all things to make And as well I beleue also that he may Forgeue and mercy vpon synners take But seyng that he hath made a determination By a law that none shall be saued good or badde Then he that would looke for any saluation Truly I take hym ten tymes for worse than madde Infidelitie He that will not the kepers of the law saue Which obserue diligently his commaundementes Much lesse truly on them mercy he will haue Which haue contemned all his words iudgements Wel Mary I haue condemned thee vnto hell fyre the Law Yet not so condemned thee but if thou canst beleue In that Messias which for thee doth enquire There is no doubt but thy sinnes he will forgeue Thy sore is knowen receiue thy salue and medicine I haue the sicke to the leache geue good eare Hearken diligently vnto his good discipline And he will heale thee doe nothyng feare Exit Let me fele your poulses mistresse Mary be you sick Infidelitie By my trouth in as good tēpre as any woman can be Your vaines are full of bloud lusty and quicke In better taking truly I did you neuer see The body is whole but sick is the conscience Knowledge of synne Which neither the law nor man is able to heale It is the word of God receyued with penitence Like as the boke of wisedome doth plainly reueale Infidelitie Conscience how doth thy conscience litle Mall Was thy conscience sicked alas little foole Hooreson fooles set not a pynne by them all Wise inough in dede to folowe their foolishe schoole You bottell nosed knaue get you out of place Auoyde stinkyng horeson a poyson take thee Hence or by God I will lay thee on the face Take hede that hereafter I doo you not see Though I appere not to hir carnall syght Knowledge of synne Yet by the meanes that she knoweth the lawe I shall trouble hir always both day and night And vpon hir conscience continually gnawe Infidelitie What chere nowe is here but we twayne alone Be mery mistresse Mary and away the mare A murreyn go with them now they be gone Plucke vp your stomacke and put away all care Mary O maister Prudence my heart is sore vexed The knowledge of synne is before me alway In my conscience I am so greuously perplexed That I wote not what to doe truly nor say Here entreth Christ Iesus Infidelitie Benedicite arte thou come with a vengeance ▪ What wilt thou do Mary doe you loue me My wordes print well in your remembrance To yonder felowes saying doe you neuer gree Christ Iesus Into this worlde God hath sent his owne Not to iudge the world or to take vengeance But to preache forgeuenesse and pardon Through true faith in hym and perfect repentance The sonne of man is come to seke and saue Suche persons as perishe and go astraye God hath promised them lyfe eternally to haue If they repent and turne from theyr euill way The kyngdom of heauen is at hand therfore repent Amende your lyues and the Gospell beleue The sonne of God into this world is sent To haue mercy on men and theyr synnes to forgeue Mary O here is the Messias of whom we haue harde What say you Prudence is not this same he Infidelitie A Mary do you my wordes no more regard You haue a waueryng witte now well I doe see Is not this a lyke person the sonne of God to be And the Messias whiche the worlde should saue He is a false harlot you may beleue me Whome you shall see one day handled like a knaue If the lawe of God published by Moyses Be not able to bryng men to saluation Muche lesse suche a wretched man doubtlesse Can do ought for your soules consolation Tushe take one heauen in this present world here You remember what before to you I haue sayd Pluck vp your heart wenche and be of good there Neuer regard his words tushe be not afrayd Mary The lawe hath set my synnes before my syght That I can not be mery but am in despaire I know that God is a Iudge equall and right And that his lawe is true pure cleane and fayre By this law am I condemned alredy to hell The wordes he hath spoken must be fulfilled Of myrth and ioy it is but foly to tell For I perceiue that both body and soule be spilled Christ Like as the father raiseth the dead agayne And vnto life doth them mercifully restore So the sonne quickeneth the dead it is playne And geueth them a life to liue euermore Uerily verily I say he that heareth my voyce And beleueth on him that hath me sent Shall haue euerlastyng life therin to reioyce And shall not come into damnable torment But the same passe from death vnto lyfe Repent and trust in Gods
mercy for my sake With the sinnes of the world be at debate and strife And vnto grace my heauenly father will you take All they whom the law condemneth for synne By faith in me I saue and iustifie I am come sinners by repentance to winne Christe speaketh to Mary Like as the Prophet before did prophecie Thou woman with mercy I do thee preuent If thou canst in the Sonne of God beleue And for thy former lyfe be sory and repent All thy sinnes and offences I doe forgeue Infidelitie Who is the sonne of God sir of whom do ye talke Which hath this power wherof you do boast It is best for you out of this countrey to walke And neuer more be sene after in this coast The sonne of God quod he This is a pride in dede Trowest thou that the father can suffer this They come of Abrahams stocke and holy sede And thou saiest that they beleue all amisse Christ. Auoide out of this woman thou Infidelitie With the .vii. diuels which haue hir possessed I banish you hence by the power of my diuinitie For to saluation I haue hir dressed Infidelitie runneth away Mary falleth flat downe Cry all thus without the doore and roare terribly Diuels O Iesus the Sonne of God euer liuing Why comest thou before the tyme vs to torment In no person for thee we can haue any abidyng Out vpon thee the sonne of God omnipotent Christ. Arise woman and thanke the father of heauen Which with his mercy hath thee preuented By his power I haue reiâ—cted from the spirits seuen Which with vnbelief haue thy soule tormented Mary Blessed be thy name O father celestiall Honor and glory be giuen to thee world without end O Lord doest thou regard thus a womaÌ„ terrestriall To thee what tong is able worthy thanks to repend O what a synfull wretche Lord haue I bene Haue mercy on me Lord for thy names sake So greuous a sinner before this day was neuer sene Uouchsafe therfore compassion on me to take Iesus Christ. Canst thou beleue in God the maker of all thing And in his onely sonne whom he hath sent Mary I beleue in one God Lord and heauenly kyng And in thee his onely sonne with hearty intent Good Lord I confesse that thou art omnipotent Helpe my slender beliefe and infirmitie My faith Lord is waueryng and insufficient StreÌ„gth it I pray the with the power of thy maiesty No man can come to me that is in me beleue Christ â–ª Faith repeÌ„taÌ„ce entreth Except my father draw hym by his spirite Behold Faith and Repentance to thee here I geue With all other vertues to thy health requisite Note well the power of Gods omnipotencie Faith That soule which of late was a place of deuils He hath made a place for him self by his clemencie Purgyng from thence the multitude of euils Repentance The mercy of Christ thought it not sufficient To forgeue hir synnes and deuils to pourge But geueth hir grace to be penitent That is hir soule euer after this day to scourge The vertue of Repentance I do represent Which is a true turnyng of the whole lyfe and state Unto the will of the lord God omnipotent Sorowing for the sinnes past with displesure hate That is to say all the inward thoughts of the hart And all the imaginations of the mynde Which were occupied euill by Sathans arte Must hence forth be turned after an other kynd Dauid my father on his synnes did alway thinke Howe horrible they were in God almighties sight Teares were his sustenance yea both meat drinke His hole meditation was in heauen both day night So that Repentance is described in Scripture To be a returnyng from syn with all the soule hart And all the life tyme in repentyng to endure Declaring the same with the senes in euery part As thus like as the eyes haue ben vaynly spent Upon worldly and carnall delectations So henceforth to wepyng and teares must be bent And wholly giuen to godly contemplations Likewise as the eares haue ben open alway To here the blasphemyng of Gods holy name And fylthy talkyng euermore night and day Nowe they must be turned away from the same And glad to heare the Gospell of saluation How God hath mercy on them that doe call And how he is full of pitie and miseration Raisyng vp suche agayne as by synne dyd fall The tong which blasphemie hath spoken Yea and filthily to the hurt of soule and body Wherby the precepts of God haue ben broken Must hence forth praise God for his mercy daily Thus like as all the members in tymes past Haue ben seruantes of vnrighteousnesse and synne Now Repentance doth that seruice away cast And to mortifie all his lustes doth begynne True repentance neuer turneth backe agayn For he y t laieth his haÌ„d on the plough loketh away Is not apt in the kingdom of heauen to raigne Nor to be saued with my sainctes at the last day Mary O Lorde without thy grace I do here confesse That I am able to do nothyng at all Where it pleaseth thee my miserie to redresse Strength me now that hence forth I do not fall Graunt me Lord suche a perfect repentance And that I looke no more back but go forward still Put my miserie euermore into my remembrance That I may forthinke my life that hath ben so yll Fayth The holy vertue of Faith I do represent Ioyned continually with repentance For where as the person for synne is penitent There I ascertain him of helth and deliuerance Wherfore I am a certaine and sure confidence That God is mercifull for Christ Iesus sake And where as is a turnyng or penitence To mercy he will the penitent take Faith therfore is the gyft of God most excellent For it is a sure knowledge and cognition Of the good will of God omnipotent Grounded in the word of Christes erudition This faith is founded on Gods promission And most clerely to the mynde of man reuealed So that of Gods will he hath an intuition Which by the holy ghost to his heart is sealed Repentance This Faith with the word hath such propinquitie That proprely the one is not without the other Faith must be tried with the word of veritie As the chyld is by the father and mother Iesus Christ. Yea truly if this faith do from Gods word decline It is no faith but a certayn incredulitie Which causeth the mynd to waÌ„der in strange doctrine And so to fall at length into impietie Faith The word to a glasse compare we may For as it were therin Faith God doth behold Whom as in a cloude we loke vpon alway As hereafter more plainly it shal be told Mary My heart doth beleue and my mouth doth publish That my lord Iesus is the sonne of God eternall I beleue that my soule shall neuer perysh But raigne with him in his kyngdom supernall Repentance The operation of Faith is not to enquire What God is as touchyng his