Pastime with good company
I love and shall unto I die;
Grudge who will but none deny
So God be pleased thus live will I
For my pastance
Hunt sing and dance My heart is set
All goodly sport for my comfort
Who shall me let
Youth must have some dalliance
Of good or ill some pastance;
Company methinks then best
All thoughts and fancies to digest
For idleness; is chief mistress of vices all
Then who can say but mirth and play;
Is best of all
Company with honesty
Is virtue vices to flee
Company is good and ill
But every man hath his free will
The best ensue the worst eschew
My mind shall be
Virtue to use vice to refuse
This shall I use me
For my pastance
Hunt sing and dance My heart is set
All goodly sport for my comfort
Who shall me let