Musica Reservata - Pastime with good company lyrics
Artist: Musica Reservata
album: Music to Entertain Henry VIII
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 godely sport
For my comfort
Who shall me let?
Youth must have some daliance
Of good or ill some pastance
Company me thinketh 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, and vice 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
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 godely sport
For my comfort
Who shall me let?
Youth must have some daliance
Of good or ill some pastance
Company me thinketh 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, and vice 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
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