Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, 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 me thinks the best, All thoughts and facies 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 has his free will. The best ensue, The worst eschew! My mind shall be, Virtue to use, Vice to refuse; Thus shall I use me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS by ROBERT FROST THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK by JAMES GALVIN THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE EXPANDED COMPOSITION by CLARENCE MAJOR A CERTAIN POET ON THE DEBATES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CORONER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE VILLAGE ATHEIST by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |