All Things Are Wrought by Nature
[The notions of heaven and hell] are devised fables, to keep poor fools in fear.... These things are nothing so: No God nor devil is biding, no Heaven nor Hell I know. All things are wrought by Nature, the earth, the air, the sky: There is no joy nor sorrow after that man doth die. Therefore let me have pleasure, while here I do remain: I fear not God's displeasure, nor Hell's tormenting pain. The Wonderfull Example of God Shewed upon Jasper Coningham , a ballad ca. 1600