Pastime with good company (The Kynges Ballade)

Henry Tudor, c. 1513 British Museum, MS 31922 James Bowman, Nigel Rogers, Ricercare Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zurich The King’s Musick, Aus der Zeit Henry VIII (EMI Reflexe 1974) Pastime with good company I love and shall until I die grudge who lust but none deny so God be pleased thus live will I for my pastance hunt sing and dance my heart is set all goodly sport for my comfort who shall me let Youth must have some dalliance of good or ill some pastance Company methinks then best all thoughts and fancies to digest. for Idleness is chief mistress of vices all then who can say. but mirth and play is best of all. Company with honesty is virtue vices to flee. Company is good and ill but every man hath his free will. The best ensue the worst eschew my mind shall be. Virtue to use vice to refuse thus shall I use me. Disclaimer: I do not own this music or the rights to it. I did no