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Poem by John Heywood


To the Flatterer


Thy flattering of me, this followeth thereupon: 
Other thou art a fool, or else I am one. 
Where flattery appeareth, at least by wise men’s school, 
The flatterer, or the flattered, is a fool.



John Heywood


John Heywood's other poems:
  1. Of Holding an Inn
  2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
  3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
  4. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
  5. Of Foreknowledge


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