pastime with good company 

i love and shall untill i die 

grudge who will let none deny 

so god be pleased this life will i 

for my pastance* hunt sing and dance 

my heart is set 

all goodly sport for my comfort 

who shall me let 



youth will needs have dalliance 

of good or ill some pastance 

company my thinketh best 

all thoughts and fancies 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 has his free will 

the best i sue the worst eschew 

my mind shall be 

virtue to use vice to refuse 

i shall use me