1 Pastime with good company <br />2 I love and shall unto I die. <br />3 Grudge whoso will, but none deny, <br />4 So God be pleased, this live will I. <br />5 For my pastance <br />6 Hunt, sing, and dance. <br />7 My heart is set <br />8 All godely sport <br />9 To my comfort. <br />10 Who shall me let? <br /> <br />11 Youth will have needs daliance, <br />12 Of good or ill some pastance. <br />13 Company me thinketh then best <br />14 All thoftes and fantasies to digest. <br />15 For idleness <br />16 Is chief mistress <br />17 Of vices all. <br />18 Than who can say <br />19 But "pass the day" <br />20 Is best of all? <br /> <br />21 Company with honesty <br />22 Is virtue, and vice to flee. <br />23 Company is good or ill <br />24 But every man hath his free will. <br />25 The best ensue, <br />26 The worst eschew, <br />27 My mind shall be. <br />28 Virtue to use, <br />29 Vice to refuse, <br />30 I shall use me.<br /><br />Henry VIII, King of England<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/passtime-with-good-company/
