Pastime with Good Company - The Soil Bleeds Black

Pastime with good company

I love and shall until I die

Grudge who will 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

Youth must have some dalliance

Of good or ill some pastance

Company methinks them 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 vice to flee

Company is good and ill

But every man has his free will

The best ensue

The worst eschew

My mind shall be:

Virtue to use

Vice to refuse

Thus shall I use me