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
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
vanitie In me is all vengeance enuie rankor and yre Murder warre treason and gredie desyre I conteyne the wicked vices of vsurie Dice and card playing with all kynd of iniurie What mischief was there euer yet or synne But that cupiditie dyd it first of all begynne Infidelitie There can not be a more fylthy place in hell Than that is where as cupiditie doth dwell Cupiditi Yea there is impietie the contempt of Gods lawe His worde is no more regarded than a vile strawe Pride of lyfe You contayne vices very wicked in dede But how wicked is he froÌ„ whom al syn doth procede The beginning of syn which doth maÌ„ froÌ„ god deuide Scripture calleth it nothyng els but pride For I my selfe not onely conteyne you three But all vices in you and that in euery degree Pride despiseth God and committeth idolatrie To God and man Pride is a very aduersarie I am full of boastyng arrogancie and vainglorie Enuious and of all other mens wealth right sory Pride causeth obstinacie and disobedience Yea it engendreth idlenesse and negligence The truth of Gods prophets through tiraÌ„ts of pride Hath euer vnto this day ben cast asyde The men of God pride hath spitefully reputed And with tirants alway the same persecuted Pride would neuer suffer any vertue to raigne But oppressed it with great malice and disdaine In a short summe fewe wordes you shall know all Pride caused Lucifer from heauen to hell to fall Yea pride lost mankynd and did him so infect That God from his fauour dyd him away reiect Where as pride is a token it is euident That all other vices be euen there resident Infidelitie Where as you and all your ofspryng doth dwell There is a place for all the diuels in hell And playne it is where as is suche fylthy sinne There euen in this world their hell doth begynne By such time as with vs Mary be furnished With the deuill him self she shall be replenished Pride In our tragedie we may not vse our owne names For that would turne to al our rebukes and shames Infidelitie Pride with all thy abhominable store At this tyme must be called Nobilitie and honor Cupiditi Uery well for these women that be vicious Are alwais high mynded and ambicious Concupiscence â–ª Neuer woman that could play a harlots part Was either humble or yet meke in hart Infidelitie Yea and the same loued alway cupiditie Therfore thy name shall be called Utilitie Pryde For hym a better name you could not expresse For yll disposed women are alway mercylesse Car. concupisceÌ„ce They are alwais scraping clawing gathering To maintaine their liues in wickednesse and synne Infidelitie Carnall concupiscence shalbe called pleasure And that pretie Marie loueth beyond all measure Pride Infidelitie may not be called infidelitie Infidelitie No we will worke with a litle more austeritie Infidelitie for diuers respectes hath names diuers Of the which some of theÌ„ to you I purpose to reherse With bishops priests scribes seniors and pharisies And with as many as be of the Iewes degrees I am called Legall Iustice commonly For why by the lawe them selues they do iustifie It is playne Infidelitie so to beleue Therfore there suche a name to my selfe I do geue I haue a garment correspondent to that name By the which I walke among them without blame With publicans and sinners of a carnall pretence I am somtime called couÌ„sel and somtime Prudence I cause them the wisedome of God to despise And for the fleshe and the world wittily to deuise Prudence before Marie my name I will call Which to my suggestions will cause hir to fall A vesture I haue here to this garment correspondeÌ„t Lo here it is a gowne I trowe conuenient Pride For our honor I pray thee heartily doe it weare Infidelitie Mary did talke with me before in this geare But bicause she shall the sooner to me apply put on a gowne a cap. I will dresse me in these garments euen by and by How thynke you by me now in this aray Mary loueth them I tell you that vse to go gay Cupiditi Then hadst thou nede to mend thy folysh couÌ„tenaÌ„ce For thou lookest like one that hath lost his remeÌ„braÌ„ce Car. concupiscece With the one eye ouermuch thou vsest to winke That thou meanest som fraude therby they wyl think He that loketh with one eie winketh with an other I would not trust say they if he were my brother Infidelitie Lyke obstinate Friers I temper my looke Which had one eie on a wench and an other on a boke Passion of God behold yonder commeth Marie See that in your tales none from other do varie Pride It is a pretie wenche that it is in dede Muche to intreate her I thynke we shall not nede Cupiditi No for I thinke she is yll inough of hir selfe She seemeth to be a proude little elfe Car. concupisceÌ„ce I pray you behold how she trimmeth her geare She would haue all well about her euery where Mary MaideÌ„s quod she there is no geÌ„tlewomaÌ„ I wene So accumbred as I am for such were neuer sene Fie on them in good faith they are to badde They would make some gentlewoman stark madde Like as I put of my geare so I do it fynde And I can not tel how oft I haue told theÌ„ my mynd By the faith of my body if they do not amende To lay them on the bones surely I do intend Infidelitie Maxima quaequae domus seruis est plena superbis Euery great house as the Poet doth say Is full of naughtie seruantes both night and day Mary You say truth sir in dede what old acquaintance Now forsoth you were out of my remembrance You haue changed your aray since I was here I am glad to see you mery and of a good chere Infidelitie And I of yours mistresse Mary with hart mynd It is a ioy to see a gentlewoman so louyng and kynd Shall I be so bold to kisse you at our metyng Mary What else it is an honest maner of greetyng Infideli â–ª Pleaseth it you to byd these gentlemen welcome Mary Yea forsoth are they heartily all and some I will kysse you all for this gentlemans sake He is a friend of myne as I do hym take Pride He is in dede you may be sure mistresse Mary There is no man lyuyng can say the contrary Cupiditi He hath ben diligent to seke vs togither And for your sake he hath caused vs to come hither Car. concupisceÌ„ce I dare say thus much that he is your friende For he loueth you with his whole heart and mynde He hath ben diligent about your cause As it had bene his owne and would neuer pause Till he had performed his desired request Mary Which I am able to say is very honest A gentle friend at so little acquaintance Will you â—ooke so much vnto my furtherance It seemeth then if by me you had ben benefited You would haue my kyndnesse gently requited Infidelitie Quo