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,
Nor 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.
Sonnets: Idea Xxii To Folly
Michael Drayton
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Poem topics: I love you, baby, nature, people, running, sometimes, thanks, together, feather, good, wise, play, laugh, young, children, love, I miss you, april fools, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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