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Poem by John Heywood


Wisdom and Folly


Thy wisdom and folly both, nay no one 
Can be contained in volumes great nor small. 
Thy wisdom being none, occupieth place none; 
Thy folly being all, occupieth place all.



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. A Reward to a Service Man


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