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Men dredeth death for foure thynges.
Foure
encheasones in bokes I rede
Why men death so moche drede
One is for death is stronge and fell
And hath more payne, than man can tell
Another is, for the syght that he shall se
Of horryble deuylles, that aboute hym shall be
The thyrde is for acompte that he shall yelde
Of all that he hath done in youth and elde
The fourth for he is euer than vncertayne
Whyther he shall wende to blysse or payne
He woteth nat than, howe he shall fare
For death is bytter, and full of care
And so it semeth well, as sayth the boke
For when Chryste dyed in manhed that he toke
And or he dyed vpon the holy rode
For drede of death, he swete droppes of blode
For he wyst, or he to death gan passe
What the harde payne, of bodely death was
Than may we knowe therby full wele
That the payne of mannes death, is harde to fele
And of that death, I may thynke wonder
For all thynge death may breake asonder
As it sheweth by many wayes to vs
Therfore an holy man, in his boke sayth thus.
Why men death so moche drede
One is for death is stronge and fell
And hath more payne, than man can tell
Another is, for the syght that he shall se
Of horryble deuylles, that aboute hym shall be
The thyrde is for acompte that he shall yelde
Of all that he hath done in youth and elde
The fourth for he is euer than vncertayne
Whyther he shall wende to blysse or payne
He woteth nat than, howe he shall fare
For death is bytter, and full of care
And so it semeth well, as sayth the boke
For when Chryste dyed in manhed that he toke
And or he dyed vpon the holy rode
For drede of death, he swete droppes of blode
For he wyst, or he to death gan passe
What the harde payne, of bodely death was
Than may we knowe therby full wele
That the payne of mannes death, is harde to fele
And of that death, I may thynke wonder
For all thynge death may breake asonder
As it sheweth by many wayes to vs
Therfore an holy man, in his boke sayth thus.
Mors soluit omnia.
Death he sayeth, vndoeth all maner thyngeAnd of mannes lyfe, maketh an endynge
Wherfore death is greatly to be dred
As hereafter it shall be more playnely shewed.
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