Ye hearers, take it of worth, old and young, And forsake Pride, for he deceiveth you in the end.
And remember Beauty, Five-Wits, Strength, and Discretion
They all at the last do Everyman forsake,
Save his Good Deeds there doth he take--
But beware, for and they be small,…
For after death amends may no man make,
For then mercy and pity doth him forsake.
If his reckoning be not clear when he do come,
God will say, "Ite maledicti in ignem eternum!"