Pastyme With Good Companye / Songs and Lyrics

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w:Pas-tyme with good com__ pan- ye_ I love and shall un-tyll I dye_
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w:Gruche who lust but none_ de_ nye, So God be plesyd thus leve_ wyll I. For
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w:my pas-tance, Hunt syng_ and_ dance, My hart is sett: All
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w:good-ly sport, For my com-fort, Who schall_ me____ let.
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W:Pastyme with good companye I love and shall untyll I dye: 
W:Gruche who lust but none denye, So God be plesyd thus leve wyll I. 
W:For my pastance, Hunt syng and dance, My hart is sett: 
W:All goodly sport, For my comfort, Who schall me let. 
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W:Youth must have sum daliance Off good or yll sum pastance: 
W:Company me thynkes then best, All thoughts and fancys to detest: 
W:For idillness, Is chef mastres Of vices all: 
W:Then who can say But myrth and play Is best of all. 
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W:Company with honeste, Is vertu from vices to flee: 
W:Company is good and ill But evry man hath hys fre wyll: 
W:The best ensew, The worst eschew, My mynde schal be: 
W:Vertu to use, Vice to refuse Thus shall I use me.

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