Pastime With Good Company

Williamson Robin

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