Lyrics
Pastime with good company
I love and shall until I die
Grugge so will but none deny
So God be pleased so live will I
For my pastaunce, hunt, sing and dance
My heart is set
To my comfort, all goodly sport,
Who shall me let?
Youth will have needs dallyaunce,
of good or ill, some pastaunce,
company me thinketh them best
All thoughts and fantasies to digest.
For idleness is chief mistress
of vices all,
Then who can say but pass the day
is best of all.
Company with honesty
is virtue and vice to flee
Company is good or ill
but every man hath his free will
The best I saw
The worst eschew
My mind shall be
Virtue to use, vice to refuse,
I shall use me.
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