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Pastime with good company I love and shall until I die grudge who lust 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
youthe muſt haue ſū daliance youth must have some dalliance off good or yll ſū paſtance. of good or ill some pastance Company me thynkſ then beſt Company me thinks then best all thoughtſ & fanſys to deieſt. all thoughts and fancies to digest. ffor Idillnes for Idleness is cheff maſtres is chief mistress of vices all of vices all then who can ſay. then who can say. but myrth and play but mirth and play is beſt of all. is best of all.
Company wt honeſte Company with honesty is vertu vices to ffle. is virtue vices to flee. Company is good & ill Company is good and ill but eûy man hath hys fre wyll. but every man has his free will. the beſt enſew the best ensue the worſt eſthew the worst eschew my mynde ſhalbe. my mind shall be. vertu to vſe virtue to use vice to refuce vice to refuse thus ſhall I vſe me. thus shall I use me.
- Composition and lyrics by King Henry VIII (* 1491, &dagger1547), c. 1513
- Source: Pastime with Good Company
