Everyman: Satire 1 key example

After Death tells Everyman that he must prepare to take a long pilgrimage to a place where he will be judged by God (a journey that allegorically represents death in the play), Everyman struggles in vain to find some companion to accompany him on his arduous travels. After being rejected by both his friends and family, he decides to ask his worldly possessions and money to travel with him. In a scene that satirizes human greed, Everyman makes his request to Goods: 

It is another disease that grieveth me; 
In this world it is not, I tell thee so. 
I am sent for another way to go, 
To give a straight account general 
Before the highest Jupiter of all; 
And all my life I have had joy and pleasure in thee.
Therefore I pray thee go with me, 
For, peradventure, thou mayst before God Almighty 
My reckoning help to clean and purify; 
For it is said ever among, 
That money maketh all right that is wrong.

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