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Poem by Michael Drayton


Sonnet 22. With Fools and Children


To Folly

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;
Love, still a baby, plays with gauds 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 than when as young as he;
You that behold us, laugh us 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 than they. 



Michael Drayton


Michael Drayton's other poems:
  1. Sonnet 47. In Pride of Wit
  2. Sonnet 23. Love, Banish'd Heav'n
  3. Roc
  4. Sonnet 14. If He From Heav'n
  5. Sonnet 27. Is not Love


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