Pastime with good company (Henry VIII)

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Editor: Philip Legge (added 2006-01-15).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 84 kbytes   Copyright: 2006 Philip Legge
Edition notes: Included in the TUMS Busking Book.
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Editor: Jim Cooke (added 2004-07-02).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 128 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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Editor: John D. Smith (added 2004-02-20).   Score information: A4, 1 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Scores listed alphabetically by composer, some scores are also available as PDF files.
  • CPDL #6172: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif.
Editor: Ted Dean (added 2003-12-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal
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  • CPDL #4730: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif.
Editor: John Kilpatrick (added 2003-04-08).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal
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Editor: Claudio Macchi (added 2001-03-13).   Score information: 28 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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Editor: François-Xavier Chauchat (added 2000-07-24).   Score information: 36 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Pastime with good company
Composer: Henry VIII

Number of voices: 3, 4vv  Voicing: ATB, SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: none, a cappella
Published:

Description: Some editions are ATB, some are rearranged for SATB, or have a S descant over the ATB score.

Original text and translations

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  • 1. Pastime with good company
I love, and shall until I die.
Gruch* who lust but none deny,
So God be pleas'd 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?

* gruch: archaic form of grudge.

  • 2. 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.
  • 3. 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.
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