Past Time with Good Company
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Past time with good company
I love and shall until I die
Crush the will but not deny
So God be pleased this life will I
For my past times, I'll sing and dance
my heart is set
Oh goodly sport, to my comfort
Who shall be met

Youth will needs have dalliance
Of good or ill some past tense
Company me think it the best
All thoughts and fantasies to digest
For idleness, is chief mistress
Of vices old
Than who can say, but cast the day
is best of all

Company with honesty
Is virtue and vice to flee
Company is good or ill
But every man has hath own free will
The best I sue, the worst is you
My mind shall be
Virtue to use, vice to refuse
I shall use me