Passtime with good company



1     Pastime with good company
2     I love and shall unto I die.
3     Grudge whoso will, but none deny,
4     So God be pleased, this live will I.
5     For my pastance
6     Hunt, sing, and dance.
7     My heart is set
8     All godely sport
9     To my comfort.
10   Who shall me let?

11   Youth will have needs daliance,
12   Of good or ill some pastance.
13   Company me thinketh then best
14   All thoftes and fantasies to digest.
15   For idleness
16   Is chief mistress
17   Of vices all.
18   Than who can say
19   But "pass the day"
20   Is best of all?

21   Company with honesty
22   Is virtue, and vice to flee.
23   Company is good or ill
24   But every man hath his free will.
25   The best ensue,
26   The worst eschew,
27   My mind shall be.
28   Virtue to use,
29   Vice to refuse,
30   I shall use me.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBBCCDXXD CCEECCFCXF AAGGCXACCA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 818
Words 161
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 10

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