Preacher monologue (Act 5) — The Saint's Tragedy

My brethren, I have a message to you: therefore hearken with all your ears--for now is the day of salvation. It is written, that the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light--and truly: for the children of this world, when they are troubled with vermin, catch them--and hear no more of them. But you, the children of light, the elect saints, the poor of this world rich in faith, let the vermin eat your lives out, and then fall down and worship them afterwards. You are all besotted-- hag-ridden--drunkards sitting in the stocks, and bowing down to the said stocks, and making a god thereof. Of part, said the prophet, ye make a god, and part serveth to roast--to roast the flesh of your sons and of your daughters; and then ye cry, 'Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire;' and a special fire ye have seen! The ashes of your wives and of your brothers cleave to your clothes,--Cast them up to Heaven, cry aloud, and quit yourselves like men!