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An enterlude called lusty Iuuentus Lyuely describing the frailtie of youth: of natur, prone to vyce: by grace and good counsayll, traynable to vertue. The parsonages that speake. Messenger. Lusty Iuuentus. Good counsaill. Knowledge. Sathan the deuyll. Hypocrisie. Felowship. Abhominable lyuing. Gods mercifull promises. Foure maye playe it easely, takyng such partes as they thinke best: so that any one take of those partes that be not in place at once.; Lusty Juventus
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Wever, R.
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thinke in thys world few that lyue nowe O where is y e godly exaÌ„ple that parentes should geue Unto their yong familie by godly vertuous lyuyng Alas how wicked do they themselfes lyue Without any fear of God or his ryghteous threatening They haue no respect vnto the dreadfull rekenyng Whych shalbe required of vs when the Lorde shall come As a ryght full iudge at the daye of dome O what a ioyfull sight was it for to se When youth began Gods worde to imbrace Then he promysed godly knowledge and me That from our instructioÌ„ he would neuer turne his face But now he walketh alas in the vngodlyes chase Her entreth Inuentus Heapyng sinne vp on sinne vice vpon vyce He that lyueth most vngodly is counted most wyse Who is here playng at the dyce I herd one speake of synnes and cyce Hys wordes did me entice Hither to come Good counsell A youth youth whether doest thou runne Greatly I do be wayle thy misrable estate The tyrrible plagues which in Gods lawe are written Hang ouer thy head both early and late O fleshly capernite stubburne and obstinate Thou haddest leuer forsake Christ thy sauiour and kinge Then thy fleshly swinish lustes abbomynable lyuynge Iuuentus what olde hoorson art thou a chydyng I will play a spyrt why should I not I set a myte by thy chekyng what hast thou to do and yf I lose my cote I wyll trill the bones whyle I haue one grote And when there is no more inke in the pen I wyll make a shyfe as well as other men Good couÌ„sell Then I perceue you haue for gotton cleane The promyse that you made vnto knowledge and me you sayde such fleshly fruites shoulde not be sene But to Gods worde your lyfe should agre Full true be the wordes of the prophet Osey No verytie nor knowledge of God is now in the land But abomynable vices hath gotten the vpper hand Iuuentus your mynde therin I do well vnderstand you go about my lyueng to despise But you will not se the beames in your own eyes Good counsell The deuell hath you dysceiued whych is y e auctor of lyes And trape you in hys snar of wicked hypocrye Therfore all that euer you do deuyse Is to maintayne your fleshly lybertie Iuuentus I merueyle why you do thys report me Wherin do I my lyfe abuse Good councell your whole conuersacyon I may well accuse As in my consience iust occasion I find Therfore be not offended although I exprese my mynde Iuuentus Bi the masse if thou tel not truth I wil not be behind To touch you as well agayne Good counsell For thys thyng most cheifly I do complaye Haue ye not professed the knowledge of Chrystes gospell And yet I thynke no more vngodlines doth raigne In any wicked Heathen Turke or infidell who can deuyse that synne or euyll That you practyse not from day to day yea and count yt nothyng but a iest or a play Alas what wantonnes remaineth in your flesh How desyrous are you to accomplish your owne wyll what pleasure delyght haue you in wickednes How diligent are you your lustes to fulfyll S. Paul sayth that you ought your fleshly lustes to kyll But vnto hys teachyng your lyfe ye will not frame Therfore in vayne you beare a christians name Rede the .v. to the Galathians there you shal se That the flesh rebelleth agaynst the spirit And that your own flesh is our most veter enemye If in youre soules helth you do delyght The tyme were to long now to recite What whordom oncleanes and fylthe communycacyon Is despersed wyth youth in euery congregation To speake of pryde enuye and abhomynable othes They are the common practises of youth To auaunce your flesh you cut iagge your clothes And yet ye are a great gospeller in the mouth What shall I say for thys plasphemyng the truth I wyll shew you what saynt Paule doth declare In his epistle to the Hebrues and the .x. Chapter For hym sayth he whych doth wyllyngly syn or conseÌ„t After he hath receued the knowledge of the veryte Remayneth no more sacrifice but a fearful lokiÌ„g for iudgemeÌ„t And a trrible fier whych shal consume y e aduersary And Christ sayth that thys blasphemy Shal neuer be pardoned nor forgeuen In thys world nor in the world to come Alas alas what I haue wrought and done Iuuentus Herein thys place I wil fal doune desperate He lyeth doun To aske for mercy now I know it is to late Alas alas that euer I was begat I wolde to God I had neuer bene borne All faythfull meÌ„ that beholde this wreched state May very iusty laugh me to scorne They may say my tyme I haue euel spent and worne Thus in my first age to worke my owne destructyon In the eternall paynes is my parte and portion Good counsell Why youth art thou fallen into desperation What man plucke vp thine harte and rise Although thou se nothing now but thy condempnation yet it may please God agayn to open thy eyes Ah wretched creature what doest thou surmise Thinckest not that Gods mercy doth excede thy synne Remembre his mercifull promises coÌ„fort thi self in hi Iuuentus O syr this state is so miserable the which I lye in That my comfort and hope from me is seperated I woulde to god I had neuer bene Wo worth the time that euer I was created Good counsell A fayre vessel vnfaithfull and faint harted Doest thou thinke that god is so merciles That when the sinner doth repent and is conuerted That he wyll not fulfyll his mercifull promyses Iuuentus Alas syr I am in suche heauines That his promises I can not remembre Good councell In thy wickednes continue no lenger But trust in the Lorde without any feare And his mersifull promises shall shortly appeare I would beleue if I myght them heare Iuuentus With all my hart power and mynde The liuing God hath hym hether assined Good counsell Lo where he commeth euen here by Therfore marke hys sayinges diligently The Lord by his prophet Ezechiel sayeth in this wyse playnlye Here entreth goddes merciful promises As in the .xxxiii. chapter it doth appere Be conuerted O ye children and turne vnto me And I shall remedy the cause of your departure And also he sayth in the .xviii. chapter I do not delyght in a synners death But that he should conuert liue thus the Lord sayth Iuuentus Then must I geue neither credit nor fayth Unto sainct Paules saying which this man did alege â—â—r riseth Gods mercyfull promyses yes you must credite theÌ„ according vnto knowledge For sainct Paul speketh of those whiche resist y e truth by violeÌ„ce And so end theyr lyues without repentaunce thus sainct Austine doth them define yf vnto the Lordes word you do your eares encline And obsarue those thinges which he hath commaunded this sinfull state in the whiche you haue lyen Salbe forgotten and neuer more remembred And Christ hym selfe
⧠An Enterlude called lusty Iuuentus Lyuely describing the frailtie of youth of natur proue to vyce by grace and good counsayll traynable to vertue The parsonages that speake Messenger Lusty Iuuentus Good counsaill Knowledge Sathan the deuyll Hypocrisie Felowship Abhominable lyuing Gods mercifull promises Foure maye playe it easely takyng such partes as they thinke best so that any one take of those partes that be not in place at once ¶ The prologue of the messenger FOr as much as man is naturally prone To euil from his youth as scripture doth recite It is necessary that he be spedely withdrawen Frome concupiscence of syn his naturall appetite And ordre to bryng vp youth Ecclesiasticus doth writ â–ª An vntamed horse wyl be harde saith he And a wanton chylde wilfull wyl be ¶ Gyue hym no libertie in youth nor hys foly excuse Bowe doune his necke and kepe him in good awe Least he be stubburne no laboure refuse To trayne hym to wisedome and teache him Gods law â–ª For youth is frayle and easy to draw By grace to goodnes by nature tayll That nature hath ingrafted is harde to kyll ¶ Neuertheles in youth men maye be best Trayned to vertue by godly mean Uice may be so mortified and so supprest That it shall not breake furth yet y e roote will remayne As in thys Enterlude by youth you shall se playn From his lust by good counsell brought to godly coÌ„uersation And shortly after to frayle natures inclination ¶ The enemy of mankind Sathan through Hipocrisy Fayned or chosen holynes of mans blynd entent Forsakyn Gods word that leadeth ryght way Is brought to felowshyp and vngracious company To abhominable lyuing til he be holy bent And so to desperation if good counsel were not sent From God that in trouble doth no man forsake That doth call and trust in hym for Christes sake ¶ Finally youth by goddes special grace Doth earnestly repent his abhominable lyuyng By the doctrine of good counsell and to his solace Gods mercy entreth to hym recitinge Gods merciful promises as they be in writinge He beleueth and foloweth to his great consolacyon All these partes ye shal se brefly plaied in their fasâ—hioÌ„ ¶ Here entreth lusty Iuuentus or youth singinge as foloweth IN a herber grene a slope where as I laye The byrdes sang swete in the myddes of the daye I dreamed fast of myrth and play In youth is pleasur in youth is pleasure ¶ Me thought I walked stil to and fro And from her company I could not go But when I waked it was not so In youth is pleasure in youth is pleasure ¶ Therfore my harte is surely pyght Of her alone to haue a sight Whiche is my ioy and hartes delyght In youth is pleasure in youth is pleasure Finis Lusty inuentus or youth he speaketh ¶ What how are they not here I am disapoynted by the blessed masse I had thought to haue founde them makyng good chere But now they are gone to some secrte place Uel seing they are gone I do not greatly passe Another tyme I will holde them as much Seinge they brake promise and kepe not the tweche What shal I do now to passe a waye the daye Is there any man here that will go to game At what so euer ye wil play To make one I am redy to the same youth ful of pleasure is my propre name To be a lone is not my appetyte For of all thynges in th world I loue merry compani Who knoweth where is ere a mynstrel By the masse I would fayne go daunce a fit My compacions are at it I know right well They do not all this whyle in a corner sit Agaynste another tyme they haue taught my wyt I beshrew their hartes for seruing me this Here entreth god counsell To whoÌ„ youth yet speaketh I will go seke them whether I hyt or mysse Well I met father well I met Did you heare any minstrels playe As you cam hitherwarde vpon your way And yf you did I pray you wyshe me theither For I am goyng to seke theÌ„ in fayth I know not whether Good couÌ„sell Syr I will aske you a question by your fauour what would you with the minstrell do Iuuentus Nothyng but haue a daunce or two To passe the tyme away in pleasure Good couÌ„sell If that be the matter I promyse you sure I am the more soryer that it should so be For there is no such pasting y e tyme a poynted in y e scrypture Nor yet therunto it doth not agre I wyshe that ye would so vse your libertie To walke as you are bound to do Accordyng to the vocatioÌ„ whych god hath called you to Iuuentus Why syr are you angry because I haue spoken so By the masse it is alone for my apety Good counsell Shewe me your name I praye you hertely And then I will my minde expresse Iuuentus My name is called Iuuentus doutles Say what you will I will geue you the hearinge Good counsel For as much as god hath created you of nothing Unto his owne lyknes by spirituall illuminacion It is vnmete that ye should leade your lyuinge Contrary to hys godly determynacyon Sainct Paul vnto y e Ephesians geueth good exhortacioÌ„ Saying walke circumspectly redeming the tyme That is to speÌ„d it well not to wickednes enclyne Iuuentus No no hardely none of myne If I wold lyue so straight you might couÌ„t me a foole Let them kepe thouse rules whiche are doctours diuine And haue be brought vp all theyr dayes in scole Good counsell Moyses in the lawe exhorteth his people As in the boke of Deutronomye he doth playnly wryte That they should lyue obedyent and thankefull For infecte these wordes he doth resyte All ye this day stand before the Lordes syght Both princes rulers elders and parentes ChyldreÌ„ wiues yong olde therfore obey his commauÌ„demeÌ„ts Iuuentus I am to yong to vnderstand his documents Wherfore did all they stand before his presence Good counsell To entre with God peace and aliaunce Promysing that they woulde him honour feare serue All kynde of people were bounde in those couenauntes That from his lawe they shuld neuer swarue For God vseth no percialitie Iuuentus What am I bound as wel as the cleargy To learne and follow his preceptes and lawe Good counsell Ye surely or els God wil withdrawe Hys mercy from you promysed in his couenaunt For except you lyue vnder hys obedience and awe How can you receue the benyfites of his testament For he submetteth hymselfe to be a seruaunt And his masters commauÌ„demeÌ„t wyl not fulfil nor regard According as he hath done is worthy hys reward Iuuentus It is as true a sayng as euer I heard Therfore your name I pray now tell For by my truth your coÌ„munication I like wondres wel Good counsell My name is called good counsell iuueÌ„tus Good counsel Now in fayth I cry you mercy I am sory that I haue you thus offended But I