Pastime With Good Company lyrics

Pastime with good company

I love and shall until I die.

Grutch, who lust but none deny

So God be pleased thus live will I.

For my pastense hunt, sing & dance

My heart is set,

All goodly sport, for my comfort

Who shall me let.

Youth must have some daliance

Of good or ill, some pastance

Company methinks then best

All thoughts and fancies to digest.

For idleness is chief mistress

To vices all

And who can say, but mirth & 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.

Thus shall I use me.