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Past Time With Good Company
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This song is attributed to Henry VIII. This is a very simple arangement for two voices, guitar and djembe.
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I am a pseudo-medieval musician, scribe and artificer. With layered levels of simple instruments, my sounds are often uniquely archaic. While some of my music is entirely original, most of my numbers are my personal arrangements of renaissance and medieval melodies from antiquity. There's much more information to be found about me on my web site at
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Medieval
Charts
Peak #424
Peak in subgenre #11
Author
Henry III
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Arrangement by Fugli
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April 26, 2005
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MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 2:04
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I've heard a couple of beautiful single voice renditions of this song, and I felt it needed one more voice for that chamber music aspect.
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Past time with good company. I love, and shall until I die. Grutch who lust, but none deny - So God be pleased, and 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 its dalliance. For good or ill some pastance. Company methinks then best, all thoughts and fancies to digest. For idleness is chief mistress of vices all. But who can say, but pass the day Is best of all? Company with honesty is virtue, vices to flee; Company both good and ill, yet 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. -- Henry VIII
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