Henry VIII Tudor
Passetyme with good cumpanye
I love and shall unto I dye;
Grugge so woll, but noon denye;
So God be pleeyd, this lyve woll I;
For my passtaunce
Hunte, syng and daunce;
My hert ys sett
All godely sport
To my cumfort:
Who shall me lett?
Youth woll have nedes dalyaunce,
Of good or yll some pastaunce;
Company me thynckyth then best
All thoftes and fantyses to dygest.
For idelnes
Ys cheff mastres
Of vices all;
Than who can say
But passe-the-day
Ys best of all?
Cumpany with honeste
Ys ven and vyce to flee;
Cumpany ys gode or yll,
But every man hath hys fre wyll.
The best insew,
The worst eschew,
My mynde shall be;
Vertu to use,
Vyce to reffuse,
Y shall use me.