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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. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?
  5. Of Good News to a Man


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