CHARITY.
Then shall ye be an heritor of bliss,
Where all joy and mirth is.
YOUTH.
To the which eternal
God bring the persons all
Here being, amen!
HUMILITY.
Thus have we brought our matter to an end
Before the persons here present;
Would every man be content,
Lest another day we be shent.
CHARITY.
We thank all this presence
Of their meek audience.
HUMILITY.
Jesu that sitteth in heaven so high,
Save all this fair company:[28]
Men and women that here be,
Amen, amen, for Charity.[29]
LUSTY JUVENTUS.
A MORALITY.
_An Enterlude called Lusty Juuentus, 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 Juuentus,
Good Counsaill,
Knowledge,
Sathan the deuyll,
Hypocrisie,
Felowship,
Abhominable Lyuyng,
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.
[Col.] Imprynted at London, in Lothbury, ouer agaynst Sainct Margarits
Church, by Wyllyam Copland. 4 deg., black-letter_.[30]
HAWKINS'S PREFACE.
The editor has been favoured with two copies of this moral interlude;
one of which is preserved in the library belonging to Lincoln
Cathedral,[31] the other is in the possession of Mr. Garrick. It was
written in the reign of Edward the Sixth by one R.
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