The time of youth is to be spent <br /> But vice in it should be forfent. <br /> Pastimes there be, I nought truly, <br /> Which one may use and vice deny. <br /> And they be pleasant to God and man, <br /> Those should we covet, win who can, <br /> As feats of arms and such other <br /> Whereby activeness one may utter. <br /> Comparisons in them may lawfully be set, <br /> For thereby courage is surely out fet. <br /> Virtue it is then youth for to spend <br /> In good disports which it doth fend.<br /><br />Henry VIII Tudor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-time-of-youth-is-to-be-spent/
