Sing care away with sport and play;
Pastime is all our pleasure;
If well we fare, for nought we care,
In mirth consists our treasure.
Let lungis lurke: i.e., Let slackers hide from the boss.
Let lungis lurke, and drudges work,
We do defy their slavery;
He is but a fool, that goes to school;
All we delight in braverye: All our delight is in bragging and swaggering.
All we delight in braverye.
What does it avail far hence to sail,
And lead our life in toiling;
Or to what end should we here spend
moylinge: drudgery.
Our days in irksome moylinge.
It is the best to live at rest
tak't: i.e., take life.
And tak't as God doth send it;
haunt ech wake: i.e., take part in every village festival.
To haunt ech wake and mirth to make;
And with good fellows spend it.
Source: William Chappell,