Form for the day of Pentecost. The Apostles as they speak genuflect; the Holy Spirit descends over them etc.
PETER
Honour,
ANDREW
worship,
JAMES MAJOR
and reverence,
JOHN
Glory,
PHILIP
grace,
JAMES MINOR
and goodness,
THOMAS
Dignity,
BARTHOLOMEW
virtue,
SIMON
and excellence,
MATTHEW
Beauty,
JUDAS
blessing,
MATHEAS
and brightness
PETER
Be to the Lord of high worthiness 5
ANDREW
Which hath performed that he us hight,
JAMES MAJOR
And us infused with such sweetness,
JOHN
Which to describe far passes our might.
PHILIP
This we all well know.
JAMES MINOR
Now gracious Lord Jesus, 10
THOMAS
Confirm us in thy virtue,
BARTHOLOMEW
And grant us grace ever it to pursue.
SIMON
Say we all together, amen. Amen.
And they all kiss the ground
FIRST JEW Now, fellows, take heed for in this city, Yonder sitteth a drunken crew. 15 SECOND JEW To do them good it were great pity. THIRD JEW Yea! I pray God send them shame through and through. FIRST JEW Liquor in their brains so slyly does creep That they chitter and chatter as if they jays were. SECOND JEW Yea! were any of them well asleep, 20 It were gracious to the river them to bear, There them to baptize! FIRST JEW That were, as thinketh me, A gentle sport to see; A better game to be 25 Could no man devise. PETER Sirs, alas, what do you mean? Why scorn ye now thus God's grace? It is nothing as you have seen: There is no drunk man in this place. 30 Wherefore right great is your trespass. But, sirs, hear what it doth signify: Fulfilled is now to man's solace Of Joel the pregnant prophecy, In which that he 35 That you have seen In words plain Declare certain. Now blessed God be. Amen.
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