as in hell in my soule had their place These were the merites and dedes that I had Onely thy vnspeakable mercy did me preuent And though that my life hath bene so bad Yet thou wilt no more but that I should repent O who shall geue me a fountayne of teares That I may shed abundantly for my synne This voice of the Lord alwais souÌ„deth in myn eares Repent repent and thou shalt be sure heauen to wyn He saith also do the fruictes of Repentance O Lord who is able those worthy fruictes to do I am not able to doe sufficient penance Except thy grace good Lord do helpe me therto But like as the parts of my body in tymes past I haue made seruants to all kynd of iniquitie The same iniquitie away for euer I do cast And will make my body seruant to the veritie This haire of my head which I haue abused I repute vile and vnworthie to wipe my lordes fete No obsequie therwith of me shalbe refused To do my Lord Iesus seruice as it is most mete These fleshly eies which with their wanton lookes Many persons to synne and vice haue procured They haue ben the diuels volumes and bookes Which from the seruice of God haue other allured Nowe you synfull eyes shed out teares and water Wash the Lords fete with theÌ„ whoÌ„ you haue offended To shew such obsequie to hym it is a small matter Which by his grace hath my synfull life amended O wretched eies can you wepe for a thing temporall As for the losse of worldly goodes and parents And can you not wepe for the lorde celestiall Which losse incomparably passeth all detrimentes With this oyntment most pure and precious I was wont to make this carkas pleasant and swete Wherby it was made more wicked and vicious And to all vnthriftynesse very apt and mete Now would I gladly this oyntment bestowe About the innocent feete of my sauiour That by these penitent fruictes my lord may know That I am right sory for my sinfull behauiour All my worldly substance abused before And through vnbelief of synne made instruments Now will I bestow them onely to his honor In helpyng hym and for his sake other innocents I shall not ceasse to seeke till my lord I haue found He is in the house of Symon I heard say The house standeth on yonder same ground It was told me that he dyneth there to day I was not ashamed to synne before the Lordes sight And shal I be ashamed before maÌ„ the same to coÌ„fesse To my Lord Iesus now forth will I go right Acknowledgyng to him my penitent heart doubtlesse Let Marie creepe vnder the table abydyng there a certayne space behynd and doe as it is specified in the Gospell Then Malicious Iudgement speaketh these wordes to Infidelitie Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t Lo syr what a felow this is it doth appere If he were suche a prophet as of him self he doth say He would know what maner of woman this same is here A sinner she is he can not say nay Infidelitie A sinner quod he yea she is a wicked sinner in dede This is she from whom he did me expell Behold how boldly after hym she doth procede A harlot she is truly I may tell you in counsell Malicioê° iudge Yea and yet to touche hym he doth her permit Which is agaynst the law for persons defiled Ought not among the iust to intromit But from their company should be exiled Malicioê° iudge I pray you see how busy about hym she is She washeth his feet with teares of hir eyes Heigh mary yonder is like to be nothyng amisse Behold she anoynteth him to driue away flies Trow you y e maister Symon thinketh not somwhat Yes I hold you a groate though he say nothing Malicioê° iudge He is not content I warant you that Which thyng you may see by his lookyng Symon Syrs take away here we will no more now This fyrst Are you in such things to be tought What meane you wherabout do you looke I maruell wherabout you do occupy your thought Iesus Christ. Simon the truth is so I haue a thing in my mynd Which vnto you I must nedes expresse and say Simon Maister say what you will wordes are but wynde I will heare you truely as paciently as I may Christ There were two detters whom I dyd well know Whiche were in debt to a lender that was thriftie The one fiue hundred pence truely did owe And the other ought not aboue fiftie Neither of these debters had wherwith to pay Wherfore the lender forgaue both as it dyd behoue Nowe according to your iudgement I pray you say Which of these detters ought the lender most loue â–ª Symon Mary he to whom most was forgiuen I suppose In few wordes truly you haue heard my sentence Christ. You haue rightly iudged and to the purpose Absoluyng my question like a man of science See you this woman I know that in your hertes You condemne her as a synner very vnmete To enter among you and to touche any partes Of my body yea either head or feete Saying among your selues if this were a Prophet He would know what maner a woman this is Which thus commeth in while we be at meate A sinner she is and hath done greatly amisse I say vnto you that into this world â–ª I am come To call suche great detters vnto repentance The iust which in their coÌ„ceits owe but a small suÌ„me Haue no nede of their creditours deliuerance Infidelitie What a thief is this he iudgeth our masters thoght If we destroy hym not he will surely marre all Malicioê° iudge I euer sayd that he was worse than nought But among vs puruey for him we shall Symon Sir you take vpon you very presumptuously I haue bydden you vnto my house here of good will And you reason of matters here contemptuously But take your pleasure it shall not greatly skill Christ. I say vnto you that for this cause was I borne To beare witnesse vnto the veritie I see who be hypocrites full of dissemblyng scorne And who be persons of faith and simplicitie Where as you thinke you haue done me pleasure In bidding me to eate and drinke with you here Your intent was to shew your richesse and treasure And that your holynesse might to me appeare But this woman hath shewed to me a little obsequie For these gestures whiche she sheweth to me Procede from a true meanyng heart verily As by her humilite plainly you may see When I came into your house the truth to say You gaue me no water to washe my feete withall This woman hath washed them here this day With the teares of her eies which on them did fall With the haire of hir head she hath wiped the same Thinking all other clothes therto ouer vile Horrible in hir fight is hir synne and blame Thinkyng hir self worthy of eternall exile You gaue me no kisse as the maner of the countrey is But this woman since the tyme
riches in abundance O what worldly pleasure can you want What commodities haue you of your owne About Ierusalem is not suche a plant As to me and many other is well knowen It were decent I saye to vse the fruition Of suche richesse as is left you here You neuer heard in any erudition But that one with his own should make good chere Mary By my trouth so would I if I perfectly knew Which way I should good chere makyng begyn A lusty disposition from me doth ensue But without councell I am not worth a pyn Infidelitie Councell in you shall want no councell in dede I know where a certayne company is Whiche can geue suche councell in tyme of nede That you folowyng them can neuer spede amys Mary Nowe I pray you helpe me to that company And looke what I am able to do for your pleasure You shall haue it I promise you verily Yea whether it be landes golde or treasure Infidelitie The truth is so they whom nowe I speake of Are persons of great honor and nobilitie Felowes that loue neither to dally nor scoffe But at once will tell you the veritie Mary Men of honour say you tell me I you desire Can you cause them trowe you shortly to be here I wyll goe and prouide some other attire That accordyng to my byrthe I may appere Infidelitie Byrth faith of my body you are well arayde I warrant you with these clothes they wil be content They had liefer haue you naked be not afrayde Then with your best holy day garment Mary You are a mery man in dede you are a wanton I will go and returne agayne by and by As I am I would with all my heart be known So that I might be plesant to euery mans eye Infidelitie I pray you heartily that I may be so bold To haue a kisse or two before you doe depart Mary If a kisse were worth a hundred pound of gold You should haue it euen with my very heart Exit Infidelitie I thanke you mistresse Mary by my maydenhood Lord what a pleasant kysse was this of you Take her with you I warant you wil neuer be good She is geuen to it I make God auow And I trow I shall helpe to set her forward Shortly my ofspryng and I shall her so dresse That neither law nor prophets she shall regard No though the sonne of God to her them expresse Infidelitie is my name you know in dede Proprely I am called the Serpents sede Loke in whose heart my father Sathan doth me sow There must all iniquitie and vice nedes growe The conscience where I dwell is a receptacle For all the diuels in hell to haue their habitacle You shall see that Maries heart within short space For the diuell hym self shall be a dwellyng place I will so dresse her that there shall not be a worse To her the diuell at pleasure shall haue his recourse I will go and prepare for her such a company As shall poison her with all kyndes of villanie Here entreth Pride of lyfe Cupiditie and Carnall Concupiscence Pride Whether arte thou goyng nowe Infidelitie ▪ Infidelitie Pride of Life now welcom the spryng of iniquitie O pride of life thou neuer vsest to go alone Geue me your handes also I pray you one by one Welcome pride of life with my whole heart mynde And thou art welcome Cupiditie myne owne friend What mynikin carnall concupiscence Thou art welcome heartily by my conscience Pride To see thee mery Infidelitie I am right glad Cupiditi When Infidelitie is in health I can not be sad Carnall cōcupiscence Infidelite O Infidelitie myne owne infidelitie I am glad to see thee mery now for a suretie I maruell what thou dost in this place alone I thought that out of Iurie thou hadst ben gone Infidelitie Out of Iurie no carnall lust to thee I may tell That with the chief princes now I do dwell The bishops priestes and pharisies do me so retayne That the true sense of the lawe they do disdayne Pride of lyfe In faith there is some knauery in mynde That here by thy selfe alone we doe thee fynde Cupiditi Infidelitie in our fathers cause is occupied As within a while it shall be verified Infidelitie Am I ▪ you would say so if ye knew all I was goyng forth you to call Know you not a wenche called Mary Magdalene Pride Do I know hir she is a prety wenche and a cleane Since she had discretion hir haue I knowne Mary Magdalen quod he in dede she is myne own It is as proude a litle gyrle truely I thinke As euer men sawe in this world eate or drinke Cupiditi And somwhat to do with hir now and then I haue I allure hir for hir owne profite alway to saue I haue dressed hir so well truely I beleue That alredy for Gods sake nothyng she will geue Earnall concu For my part in hir I haue kindled such a fyre That she beginneth to burn in carnall desyre Infidelitie Tushe as yet you haue but hir mynde moued Whom she may forsake if she be reproued But I would haue hir cleaue vnto you so fast That she shall not forsake you while her life doth last Pride If thou be once rooted within the hart Then maist thou make an entrance by thy craft art So that we may come into hir at pleasure Fillyng hir with wickednesse beyond all measure In vs toure without faile be contained As many vices as euer in this world raigned Now if we by thy meanes may in hir remain She shall be sure all kyndes of vices to contain Car. con Within my selfe you know that I contain a sort Whiche by name before you here I wil report My name is carnall concupiscence or desyre Which all the pleasures of the fleshe doth require First the fleshe to nourishe with drinke and meate Without abstinence like a beast alway to eate To quasse and drinke when there is no necessitie Ioying in excesse bealy chere and ebrietie I containe in my selfe all kynd of lecherie Fornication whoredom and wicked adulterie Rape incest sacrilege softnesse and bestialitie Blyndnesse of mynde with euery suche qualitie Inconstancie headinesse and inconsideration After the heartes poyson and filthy communication So then to the hate of God I do them bryng Causyng a loue in himself inordinatly to spryng These and suche like I containe in my person Thus you see that carnall lust goeth neuer alone Infidelitie Thou hast reckned an abhominable rable Where thou dwellest the deuyll may haue a stable Cupiditi With thee I may boldly compare I trow For as many vices in me as in thee do grow You know that my name is called Cupiditie Whom Scripture calleth the roote of all iniquitie Infidelitie in dede is the seede of all syn But cupiditie openeth the gate and letteth hym in I conteyne theft deceate in sellyng and bying Periurie rapine dissimulation and lying Hardinesse of heart otherwise called inhumanitie Inquietnesse of mynde falshode and
vnto their loue For it is a thyng that doth the heart greatly moue At such sights of women I haue known men in dede That with talking beholding their noses wil blede â–ª Through great corage moued by such goodly sights â–ª Labouring the matter further with al their myghts Mary Your wordes do not onely prouoke my desire But in pleasure they set my heart on fyre Infideli Sometime for your pleasure you may weare a past â–ª But aboue all thâ—n is gyrd your self in the waste Upon your ouer body you may nothyng els weare But an vnliued garment without any other geare Let your body be pent and togither strained As hard as may be though therby you be pained Pride Use will make the thyng easy there is no doubt 〈◊〉 Yea pardie gentlewomen vse it now all about Infiâ—â—â—litie Your nether garmeÌ„ts must go by gymmes ioynts Aboue your buttocks thei must be tied on w t points Some women a doublet of fyne lynnen vse to weare Unto the which they tye theyr other nether geare With wiers houpes your garments must be made Pleasure your mynion shall shew you in what trade 〈◊〉 In the wast I wil haue ye as small as a wand Yea so smal that a man may span you with his hand Infideli It skilleth not though in the buttocks you be great Car. con No for there she is like many tymes to be beate Marie Well wantons well are ye not ashamed Pryde In dede mistresse they are worthy to be blamed You must reioyce in your richesse and good And set muche by your kynrede and noble blood Boast of them and when of them you do talke Of their coÌ„mendatioÌ„s let your tong euermore walk Daily thus my lord my father or mi lady my mother My lorde my vncle and my maister my brother Mary I promise you I come of a stocke right honorable Therfore my talk of them can not be to coÌ„mendable Infidelitie It is a stock they say right honorable and good That hath neither these nor whore in their blood No more words how say you M. here by pleasure Mary Forsoth swete heart I loue him beyond al measure Infideli Body of god for this al this while haue I wrought By your smirking loke ofttimes on him so I thought What do you loue hym better than you loue me Mary Which of you I should loue best truly I can not se. Infidelitie This is a true prouerbe and no fained fable Few womens words be honest constant and stable ConcupisceÌ„ce Truly M. Mary if ye loue me ther is nothing lost Loue they say ieopardeth all and spareth for no cost Voluptas autem est sola quae nos vocet ad se Et aliciat suapte natura Pleasure sayth one man of his owne nature Allecteth to hym euery humayn creature Now what person soeuer doth pleasure hate As a beast is to be abiected both early and late Let me haue a worde or two in your eare How say you by that like you not that pretie geare Mary Ha ha ha you are a fond body pleasure verily Infidelitie Doth he not moue you to matrimonie Take hede that he bryng you not to suche dotage For many incommodities truely be in mariage Cupiditi Semper habent lites alterque iurgia lectus In quo nupta iacet minimum dormitur in illo The bedde wherin lieth any maried wife Is neuer without chidyng braulyng and strife That woman shall neuer sleape in quiete Which is maried contrary to hir diete Pride Of all bondage truely this is the ground A gentlewoman to one husband to be bound Car. con Tushe mistresse Mary be ye not in subiection Better it is to be at your owne election What thyng in this world excelleth libertie Neither gold nor treasure for a suretie Take you now one and then an other hardely Such as for the tyme will to you louyngly apply Mary That will be a meane truly to lese my good name And so among the people I shal suffer blame Infidelitie Ye shal not kepe my counsel if ye can not kepe your own Can you not make good chere but it must be known Concupiscence As touching that I will be to you suche a meane As shal teache you alwais to conuey the matter clene Pride Take you none but gentlemen with veluet coates It is to be thought that they ar not without groates Cupiditi In any wise see that your louers be yong and gay And suche fellowes as be well able to pay Mary Nay truely if I should attempt any such geare I would take where I loued alway here and there Concupiscence Spoken like a worthy swete gyrle by the masse I warant all this geare will well come to passe Infidelitie You must euer haue a tongue well fyled to flatter Let your garmentes be sprinkled with rose water Use your ciuet pommander muske which be to sell That the odor of you a myle of a man may smell With swete oyntments such as you can appoynt Use you euermore your propre body to anoynt Concupiscence With fine meats pure wines do your body norish That will cause you in all pleasure to florishe And when one for your mynde you can espye Use a smylyng countenance and a wanton eye Pride Upon all suche as ye mynd not looke you aloft To them that be not of your diet be you not soft Mary Ha ha ha laugh â–ª now I pray God I dye if euer I did se Such pleasant companions as you all be You speake of many thynges here of pleasure Which to vse truely requireth muche treasure Car. con If you can wisely occupie this pretie geare I will warant you to get an hundred pound a yeare Infidelitie Hold vp the market and let them pay for the ware Be euer catchyng and takyng doe you not spare Mary I may vse daliance and pastyme a while But the courage of youth will soone be in exile I remember yet since I was a little foole That I learned verses when I went to schoole Which be these Forma bona fragilis est quantum acceâ—â—t ad annoâ— â–ª â—â—t minor spacio carpitur illa suo Nec semper viola nec semper lilia florent Et riget amissa spina relicta rosa. The pleasure of youth is a thyng right frayle And is yearely lesse so that at length it doth faile The swete violets and lylies flourishe not alway The rose soone drieth and lasteth not a day I see in other women by very experience That the tyme of youth hath no long permanence Infidelitie In good faith when ye ar come to be an old maude Then it will be best for you to play the baude In our countrey there be suche olde mother bees Which are glad to cloke baudry for their fees This is the order such as wer harlots in their youth May vse to be baudes euermore for a truth Pride When the courage of them is altogither past In age they vse to get their liuyng with such a
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
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
propre nature But how good he is to vs to know faith doth desyre Which thing appereth in his holy Scripture Faith It is not inough to beleue that God is true only Which can neuer lie nor deceaue nor do yll But true faith is persuaded firmly and truely That in his word he hath declared his will And also what soeuer in that word is spoken Faith beleueth it as the most certaine veritie Which by his spirit he doth vouchsafe to open To all such as seke hym with all humilitie Repentance Christ the sonne of God here hath promised Forgiuenesse of synnes to you syster Mary Of his owne mercie this to do he hath deuised And not of your merites thus you see plainly If in this promise you be certain and without doubt Beleuing that the word of his mouth spoken He is able and also will do and bryng about Then that you haue Faith it is a token Mary O Iesu graunt me this true faith and beleue Lord I see in my self as yet imperfection Uouchsafe to me thy heauenly grace to geue That it may be my gouernance and direction Christ Mary my grace shall be for thee sufficient Goe thy way forth with faith and repentance To heare the Gospell of health be thou diligent And the wordes therof beare in thy remembrance Faith Though in person we shall no more appeare Yet inuisibly in your heart we will remayne Repentance The grace of God shal be with you both far nere Wherby from all wickednesse I shall you detaine Mary Honor praise and glory to the father eternall Thankes to the sonne very god and very man Blessed be the holy gost with them both coequall One god which hath saued me this day from SathaÌ„ Exeunt Christ I thank thee O father O lord of heueÌ„ earth of al That thou hast hidden these things from the sapient And hast reuealed them to the litle ones and small Yea so it pleased thee O father omnipotent All things of my father are committed vnto me And who the sonne is none but the father doth knew No maÌ„ but the sonne knoweth who y e father shold be And he to whom the sonne wil reueale and showe Come vnto me all you that with labor are opâ—â—essed And are heauy laden and I will you comfort Dispaire not for that you haue transgressed But for mercy do you boldly to me resort My yoake vpon your neckes do you gladly take And learn of me for I am lowe and meke in hart And you shal fynd rest for your soules neuer to slake My yoake and burden is light in euery part I came not into the world the righteous to call But the synfull persons vnto repentance The whoale haue no nede of the physition at all But the sicke haue nede of deliuerance Uerily I say vnto you that the angels Haue more ioy in one synner that doth repent Than in many righteous persons else Which are no sinners in their iudgement Here entreth Symon the Pharisie and malicious Iudgement Symon biddeth Christ to dynner Symon God spede you syr heartily and well to fare I reioyce much that I chaunce you here to fynde In good soth I was sory and toke muche care That I had no tyme to declare to you my mynde We know that you do much good in the countrey here Wherfore the liuyng God is glorified You heale the sicke persons both farre and nere Like as it hath ben credibly testified Christ. My father euen vnto this tyme worketh truely And I work according to his commandement wil The sonne can do nothyng of hym selfe duely But that he seeth the father doyng alway still Whatsoeuer the Father doth the sonne doth the same For the father doth the sonne entierly loue And sheweth him al things to the praise of his name And shal shew him greter works thaÌ„ these as you shal proue Malicioê° iudge Lo sir what nede you haue more testimonie You heare that he doth him self the sonne of God call Doth not the law condemne that blasphemie Commaunding such to be slaine great and small Symon For a season it behoueth vs to haue pacience I shewed you the reason wherfore of late At this season I pray you do your diligence And semble rather to loue hym than to hate Shall it please you syr this day to take payne With me at my house to take some repast You shal be welcome doubtlesse I tell you playne No great puruiance for you I entend to make Christ. My meate is to doe his will that hath me sent But syr I thanke you of your great curtesy To come to you I shall be very well content So that you will appoynt the houre stedily Symon All things be in maner ready I thinke verily In the meane season in my gardein we will walke Take the paines to go with me I pray you heartily Till dinner be ready of matters we will talke Christ With a good will I will waite vpon you Pleaseth it you to go before you know the way Symon Sirrâ— you see how that we are appointed now Make all thyngs ready without delay Malicioê° iudge Sir I will go about as fast as I may In good fayth I would that I might haue my will I would prepare for hym a galowes this day Upon the whiche I desyre his bloud to spill Infidelitie A vengeance take hym thefe is he gone From Mary Magdalene he did me chace From Symon the Pharisie he will driue me anon So that no where I shal be able to shew my face Malicioê° iudge Nay we are so surely fixed in the Pharisies mynde That his blasphemous words can not driue vs theÌ„ce Womens heartes turne oft as doth the wynde And agayne of the law they know not the sence In malice I haue made them all so blynde That they iudge nothyng in Christ aryght To the letter of the law so fast I do them bynde That of the spirite they haue no maner of light Infidelitie I will tell thee Malicious Iudgement His wordes be of suche strength and great power That the diuell hym self and all his rablement He is able to expell and vtterly to deuoure Malicioê° iudge Tushe hyde thy self in a Pharisies gowne Suche a one as is bordered with the coÌ„maundemeÌ„ts And then thou maist dwel both in citie and in towne Beyng well accepted in all mens iudgements Infidelitie As for a gowne I haue one conuenient And lo here is a cappe agreing to the same Malicioê° iudge As thou saiest that geare is very ancient I warant thee now to escape all blame Mary of one thyng thou must take good hede As nere as thou canst let him not behold thy face Doubt thou not but he shall haue his mede If I remayne with the Iewes any space Infidelitie And as for the reuerend byshop Cayphas With all the Aldermen of Ierusalem Will helpe to bryng that matter to passe For I am like for euer to dwell with them Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t The same Christ dineth with
that I came in Would not presume my head or mouth to kisse But my feete lamenting in hir heart for hir syn My head you did not anoynt with oyle so swete As men of this countrey do their guestes vse But with most precious balme she anointed my fete No cost about that oyntment she doth refuse Blessed are they as the Prophete doth say Whose sinnes are forgiuen couered by Gods mercy Not by the dedes of the lawe as you thinke this day But of Gods good will fauour and grace freely At this womans synne you do greatly grutche As though your selues were iust holy and pure But many sinnes are forgiuen hir bicause she loued muche And of the mercy of God she is sure He to whom but a little is remitted in dede Loueth but a little we se by experience All haue sinned and of Gods glory haue nede Therfore humble your selues with penitence I say to thee woman thy synnes are forgeuen all God for my sake will not them to thee impute For strength to continue to hym do thou call And see that thankes thou do to hym attribute Mary The mercy of God is aboue all his workes truely What is it that God is not able to bryng to passe I thanke thee Lord Iesu for thy great mercy Thou art the sonne of the liuyng God our Messias Malicioê° iudge Now say you by this here is a greater matter yet He forgiueth synnes as one with God equall Infidelitie And he may perceiue truely that hath any wit That he is but a man wretched and mortall Christ. Woman I say thy faith hath saued thee go in peace Now art thou pacified in thy conscience Through thy faithe I doe all thy sinnes releace Assuryng thee to haue mercy for thy negligence Mary O ioyfull tydynges O message most comfortable Let no sinner be he neuer in so great dispaire Though he were synfull and abhominable Let him come and he will make hym faire Blessed be the Lord of such compassion and pitie Praise we his name with glorie and honor I shall declare his mercy in towne and citie Thankes be to thee my Lord now and euermore Symon I see the wordes whiche I haue heard proued true Men say that you are new fangled and friuolous Goyng about the law and our rulers to subdue Introducyng sectes perillous and sedicious Malicioê° iudge I can no longer containe but must say my mynde In dede it is so for by his diuelishe erudition Which he soweth among the people of our kynde At length they will make a tumult and sedition Such blasphemy since the beginning was not heard That a man shal call him self Gods naturall sonne To condemne the law of God he is not afeard Despisyng all things that our fathers haue done Infidelitie Pleaseth it you reuerend father to geue me licence To say my mynde to this blasphemerand thiefe In fewe wordes you shall haue my sentence Of all heretikes I iudge hym to be the chiefe Perceiue you not how he doth begyn He commeth to none of the princes and gouerners But a sort of synners he goeth about to wyn As publicans whores harlots and vniust occupiers Them he preferreth before such men as you be Saying that they before you shall be saued An honest man in his company you shall not see But euen them which haue them selues yll behaued Much good doe it you here is sause for your meate Maister Simon looke vpon this felow in season For in continuance he will worke such a feate That you shall not release with all your reason Christ. O Symon put away that Malicious iudgement Which in your heart you do stubbornly contayne You shall not perceyue Gods commandement As long as he in your conscience doth remayne Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t Lo syr now that God he hath blasphemed Now his law he doth contemne and despise The Iustice therof of hym is nothyng estemed To destroy the same vtterly he doth deuise Symon Thinke you vs ignorant of gods law and will Which vpon our garments do them weare Who but we doe the law of God fulfill For his precepts with vs in all places we beare Christ. To fulfill the law requireth Gods spirite For the law is holy iust and spirituall Of loue to be obserued it is requisite And not of these obseruances externall As long as you haue this malicious iudgement Accompanied with Infidelitie I say you can not kepe Gods commaundement Though you shew an outward sanctitie Infidelitie Lo syr here he calleth me Infidelitie And you know that I am called Legal Iustification You heare that it was spoken by Gods maiestie That a man shall liue by the lawes obseruation An honest guest come out dogge yea mary Good maners thus to taunt a man at his table But with fooles it is follie to vary His wordes be taken but as a tale or a fable Symon Away with this geare how long shall we syt here At once We haue somewhat els to do I thinke Christ. Thankes be to thee O Father for this chere Thankes be to thee for our repast of meate drinke Now sir you shall licence me to depart And the heauenly Father might illumine your mynd Expellyng this infidelitie from your hart Which with Malicious iudgemeÌ„t kepeth you blynd Symon Fare ye well for me you shall no countes render All shall be layd vnder the feete that is here spoken Infide Though you forget it yet we purpose to remember Exit You know the way go I pray you the doore is open Malicioê° iudge For Gods sake syr you and such as you be Looke vpon this felow by myne aduise For what he goth about all you may see Yea you haue had warnyng of hym twise or thrise Infidelitie All the multitude beginneth after him to ronne You see hym and know his doctrine and opinion If you suffer hym till more people he hath wonne Strangers shall come and take our dominion Haue you not heard his open blasphemie The sonne of God he presumeth him self to name The Iustice of the lawe he condemneth vtterly To suffer him to lyue will turne to your shame Symon It shall behoue you to dog him from place to place Note whether openly he teache suche doctrine If he doe accuse hym before his face For I will cause the byshops hym to examine And where as he willeth you vs to expell Infidelitie Callyng vs wicked nicknames at his pleasure He goeth about to make you to rebell Against God his lawes as he doth without mesure Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t For my part I wil watche hym so narowly That a word shall not scape me that doth sounde Agaynst you the fathers that liue so holyly But to accuse hym for it a way shalbe found Symon Well the tyme of our euenyng seruice is at hand We must depart the sacrifice to prepare Infideli Exeunt If you depart we may not here ydle stande For to wayte vpon you at all tymes ready we are At my beyng here euen now of late It pleased my