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 TO FOLLY

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.