Remember man both night and daye.
Thou must nedes die, there is no nay.
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THy mortall body for-
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med of clay,
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Will sone revolve and
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passe awaye:
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But yet the time, hou
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re, or day,
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Uncertain is, wherfore
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I say.
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Remember man.
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In youth or pleasure,
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if thou put thy trust,
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In honour, treasure, or yet in lust:
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Sone all thy joy shall turne to dust,
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For remedilesse hens thou must.
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Remember man.
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All high estate and dignitie,
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Pompe, glory, wealth and soveraintie:
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It can not prolong thy life pardie,
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But all shall tourne to vanitie.
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Remember man.
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The mo thy yeres, the shorter is thy life,
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Against death there is no strife:
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And no kin, frend, childe, nor wife.
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For thy pore wil be pensife.
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Remember man.
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Then helpe thy soule, while thou arte here,
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For though thy frend be never so nere:
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When thou art dead, and laid on bere,
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They all with thy goodes make good chere.
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Remember man.
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Art thou so folish for to beleve,
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That they thy soule wil releve:
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Or yet thy goodes in almese geve.
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Which to forgo, did thee sore greve?
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Remember man.
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Nay, nay, they wil say openly,
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It were much sinne, and great folly,
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On him to rue or take pity,
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That kept his goodes so nigardly.
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Remember man.
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While thou hast goodes, do almes deedes,
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Let vertue destroy all vicious weedes:
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And sowe in thy soule, the holsome sedes
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Of sorowe and repentaunce that to heaven ledes.
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Remember man.
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Send forth before to make thy way,
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Charitable dedes, which shall and may:
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Conduct thee surely without delay,
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Paradise to wynne, at the endlesse day.
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Remember man.
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Call also to thy memory,
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This world fraile and transitory:
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Ful of foule sinne and misery,
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To heavenly blesse cleane contrary.
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Remember man.
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Of Christ Jesu the vervent love,
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Remember man all thing above,
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Whom pity did stire, and also move:
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To suffer death for thy behove.
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Remember man.
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The fearful day of strait judgement,
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Fyxe well in thy intendement:
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Where man and woman shall sore repente,
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Their sinfull life and time mispent,
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Remember man.
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Forget not the infinite paines of hell.
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Being so fervent and so fell:
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That nothing can speake, nor yet tell,
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Where dampned soules shall evermore dwell.
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Remember man.
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Remember thy joy inestimable,
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So pleasaunt and so delectable,
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Of paradise so comfortable,
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Prepared for persons laudable,
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Remember man.
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Man, if thou kepe this thing in minde.
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And to thy maker be not unkinde:
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Eternall joy thou shalt then finde,
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Ordained by god for all mankinde.
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Remember man.
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The joyes of heaven, the paines of hell,
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The passion of Christ, his death so fell:
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The worlde and death, consider thou well,
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And Domesday, love every deale.
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