To Folly <br /> <br />With fools and children, good discretion bears; <br />Then, honest people, bear with Love and me, <br />Nor older yet, nor wiser made by years, <br />Amongst the rest of fools and children be; <br />Love, still a baby, plays with gauds and toys, <br />And, like a wanton, sports with every feather, <br />And idiots still are running after boys, <br />Then fools and children fitt'st to go together. <br />He still as young as when he first was born, <br />No wiser I than when as young as he; <br />You that behold us, laugh us not to scorn; <br />Give Nature thanks you are not such as we. <br />Yet fools and children sometimes tell in play <br />Some, wise in show, more fools indeed than they.<br /><br />Michael Drayton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xxii-with-fools-and-children/
