Everyman

             I could do no more than I did, truly;.
             And now I see the people do clean forsake me. .
             They use the seven deadly sins damnable;.
             God is very angry with the people in his introduction. He says that people are too focused on fulfilling their own pleasures and still they are not secure with anything in their lives. This goes to show that the world was in a horrible state at the time, and it gives God a superior reason to call upon everyman. God calls upon Death and he enters the scene. God then tells Death to go and get a hold of Everyman and take him on a pilgrimage. Here for the first time Everyman is personified as literally every human, mankind. Death accepts God's command and says, "He that loveth riches I will strike with my dart." Death accepts Gods command and sets off in seek of Everyman.
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             Death spots Everyman walking alone and he commands him to stand still. Death asks him where he is going. Death tells him that God, as a messenger, has sent him because he has forgotten of God and of what significance God is for human kind. Everyman asks Death why would God send for him and what does he desire him to do. Death tells him that he needs to come on the pilgrimage and there he will show him what God desires of him. Everyman asks Death for more time to think about this pilgrimage that he must make because he will not be able to come back. Death tells Everyman that he needs to bring a book of accounts with a list of all his good deeds, all his sins, and on how he has spent his life. The book of accounts is for God's use. He will look upon these and see if Everyman is worthy for Heaven or for Hell. Everyman has doubts on who Death is, so he goes into interrogating him to find out who he really is. Death then tells him who he is, and that he is Death. He who fears no man, does not spare or fear the rich or the poor, he cares for no bribes and gives no respite. .
             I am Death, that no man dreadeth.