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[The tyme of youthe is to be spent]

The tyme of youthe is to be spent
but vice in it shuld be for fent
but vice in i[t] shuld be for fent.
Pastymes ther be I nought trewlye
Whych one may vse / and vice denye
And they be plesant to god and man[,]
Those shuld me couit wyn who can[:]
As featys of armys / and suche other
wherby actyuenesse oon may vtter.
Comparysons in them may lawfully be sett
ffor therby corage is suerly owt ffett
Uertue it is / then youth for to spend
In goode dysporttys whych it dothe fend.