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Excerpt from Everyman: A Moral Play The Morality or Moral Play of "Everyman," here reprinted, was published first, in English, in London some time as early as the year 1500. The first edition was by Pynson, printer in ordinary to Henry VIII. Another by him, and two editions by Skot, or Scott, followed in the same century. Since then it has been not more than two or three times reprinted, most notably by Hawkins and by Hazlitt. The copy of the play in Hawkins's "Origin of the English Drama" was taken from a black-letter copy preserved in the library of "the church of Lincoln," sold afterwards, it is said, with others, to Dibdin, the bibliographer, for five hundred guineas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.