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Title: To Folly
Author: Michael Drayton [
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With fools and children good discretion bears,
Then honest people bear with Love and me,
Nor older yet, nor wiser made by years,
Amongst the rest of fools and children be;
Loves still a Baby, plays with gawdes and toys,
And like a wanton sports with every feather,
And Idiots still are running after boys,
Then fools and children fitt'st to go together;
He still as young as when he first was born,
No wiser I, then when as young as he,
You that behold vs, laugh vs not to scorn,
Give Nature thanks, you are not such as we;
Yet fools and children sometimes tell in play,
Some wise in show, more fools indeed, then they.
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Michael Drayton's poem: To Folly
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