FELLOWSHIP.
Let us depart, and if that we shall;
Come on, masters, we twain will go before.
JUVENTUS.
Nay, nay, my friend, stop there;
It is not you, that shall have her away,
She shall go with me, and if she go to-day--
HYPOCRISY.
She shall go with none of you, I dare well say;
ABHOMINABLE LIVING.
To forsake any of your company I would be very loth;
Therefore I will follow you all three.
HYPOCRISY.
Now I beshrew his heart, that to that will not agree;
But yet because the time shall not seem very long,
Ere we depart, let us have a merry song.
_They sing as followeth_:
Why should not youth fulfil his own mind,
As the course of nature doth him bind?
Is not everything ordained to do his kind?
_Report me to you, report me to you_.
Do not the flowers spring fresh and gay,
Pleasant and sweet in the month of[139] May?
And when their time cometh, they fade away.
_Report me to you, report me to you_.
Be not the trees in winter bare?
Like unto their kind, such they are;
And when they spring, their fruits declare.
_Report me to you, report me to you_.
What should youth do with the fruits of age,
But live in pleasure in his[140] passage?
For when age cometh, his lusts will suage.
_Report me to you, report me to you_.
Why should not youth fulfil his own mind,
As the course of nature doth him bind? &c.
[_They go forth_.
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