Doctor: And behold! What is this our Lord of mercy intends?1
Permitting us to spy how Everyman transcends!2
He doth allow in a manner most merry3
Us to witness the Judgment of the quarry.4
[Enter God and Everyman]5
God: What incurable scum is this,6
Resting at the feet of my righteous rod?7
I hath no time for this serpent’s hiss!8
Be gone with thee and your earthly façade,9
There is no seat for you in this celestial squad!10
Everyman: What infallibility have you spied,11
My most gracious and ever-loving Lord and Guide?12
My will in this life was ye to serve,13
Your teachings to follow and readily observe.14
Now I am at your mercy and command15
I beseech ye forsaketh me not to that cursed land!16
God: I perceive it impossible to decide17
Another path for you, creature of gluttonous pride!18
Thrice the time hath ye denied my name19
In your sinful ways of wrath and lechery.20
I see no correctable way this wronging to tame,21
Your acts are the worst kind of perfidious treachery.22
Everyman: I beseech thee mine Lord, ever so high!23
Forgive me my trespasses, however awry!24
I hath you in greatest form acclaimed,25
Worshipped and praised and proclaimed!26
God: Your intelligence insults my holy mind,27
Your soul is weary and ill-comprised.28
I bid thee, at once leave my sight29
Before I spit up my dinner of tonight.30
Woe is your soul forever doomed,31
To Hell you are sent, for eternity entombed! 32
Everyman: But Good Deeds is here for me to attest –33
God: Shut ye mouth, damnable pest,34
Let the fires of eternity consume you now!35
They will feast on your flesh, so nigh I do vow!36
[Everyman is sent to flaming pit of Hell] 37
Author notes
So... this scene is actually a rewrite of the Middle English play, Everyman. I didn't like the ending and decided to make my own. It is technically a prewrite, since I wrote it for my English class a days ago. If you haven't read it before, that's ok, I will explain.
Everyman is basically a play where God gets angry at Everyman for being sinful, and has Death go to him and tell him his time is up. Everyman realizes he needs help, and goes to his material things for help. They all refuse. It is only through his Good Deeds and Knowledge that he gains help. After this he goes on this long journey to Confession and all these other "nice" things that clear him of his sin. Then, at the end of the original play, he dies, and it is highly assumed he goes to heaven. I decided to change that aspect.
Sorry if it is too religousy. However, I think you were talking religousy in the sense that God loves us all... not God wants to damn us all to hell. Anyway. feel free to eliminate if necessary.
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I liked it. I read the play for theatre last year and the ending bothered me as well. Yours was much more interesting and I like the way you stayed true to the ryhem scheme (can't spell) good work!
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