This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passing to and fro.
Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.

In Middle English, the speaker frames earthly life as a temporary passage (“thurghfare”) characterized by suffering, with humans cast as pilgrims continually in transit. The lines draw on a medieval Christian commonplace: the world as a vale of woe and life as a journey toward an ultimate destination beyond it. The final sentence—death as the end of “worldly soore” (worldly sorrow/pain)—offers consolation by shifting attention from temporal affliction to the terminus that releases one from it. The tone is not celebratory but soberly therapeutic, using the inevitability of death to relativize present misery and to encourage spiritual detachment from worldly troubles.