Pleasure and Pain Heaven and Hell, To the reader – Colophon
❧ The boke to the Chriſtian Readars
MY brother (the trūpet)
dyd warne you before
That al mē ſhuld walk
in their callynge vpryght
Directyng their wayes
by gooddis holy lore
knowyng that thei be always
in the lordis ſyght
Whoe ſeeth in the darcke
as well as in lyght.
He hath cryed vntounto you
all this laſt yere
And yet non emendment
doeth in you appeare.
☞ In dede, very many
do him entertayne
Lyke as there were none
more welcome then he
Yet I thyncke they do
his warnynge dyſdayne
Becauſe he doeth tell them
what is theyr duetie
For he is very playne
wyth eueryevery degre
The rych and the myghtie
he doeth nothyng feare
No more doeth he wyth
the pore mans falte beare
☞ It pleaſed my father
to ſende him before
That he myght make redy
and prepare his waye
By cauſeynge all men
to walke in his lore
That hauehave in tymes paſſed
wandred aſtraye
Leſte payne be theyr portion
at the laſte daye
And nowe hath he ſent me
that they maye ſe
As it were in a glaſſe
what theyr rewarde ſhalbe
I am the rewarde
that al men ſhall hauehave
For the iuſte ſhall hauehave pleſure
and the wicked panye
When eueryevery mā ſhal aryſe
oure of his graue
And hauehave the ſpryte knyt
to the body agayne
In heauen or in hell
they ſhall ſtyll remayne
Or blyſſe or of payne
they ſhall hauehave theyr fyll
The good ſorte In heauen
and in hell the Ill
Beholde me therfore
wyth a goſtly eie
And let me not from
your preſence departe
For no doubt you wyll
all wyckednes defye
So longe as I ſhall
remayne in your herte
I ſha…l cauſe you from
wyckednes to conuert
So that in the ende
you ſhal be ryght ſure
To lyue wyth my father
in ioye and pleaſure.
Finis.
¶ Imprinted at london by Robert Crowley dwellynge in Elie rentis in Holburne Anno Domini .M.D.L.I.
End of the text · Robert Crowley, Pleasure and Pain Heaven and Hell (1551)