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Sonnet 25 To Folly

By Michael Drayton

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With fooles and children good discretion beares,     Then honest people beare with Loue and me,     Nor older yet, nor wiser made by yeeres,     Amongst the rest of fooles and children be;     Loues still a Baby, playes with gaudes and toyes,     And like a wanton sports with euery feather,     And Idiots still are running after boyes,     Then fooles and children fitt'st to goe together;     He still as young as when he first was borne,     No wiser I, then when as young as he,     You that behold vs, laugh vs not to scorne,     Giue Nature thanks, you are not such as we;         Yet fooles and children sometimes tell in play,         Some wise in showe, more fooles in deede, then they.

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About Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton (1563–1631) was an English poet whose "Poly-Olbion" (1612–1622) is a vast topographical poem describing the landscape and legends of England and Wales. His sonnet "Since there's no help" is among the finest of the Elizabethan era.

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