Love

To Folly. Sonnet. 22 (Sonnet 22)

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Idea

Love

WIth fooles & children good discretion beares,
Then honest people beare with Loue & me,
Nor older yet, nor wiser made by yeares,
Amongst the rest of fooles and children be,
Loue's still a baby, places with gawdes and ioyes,
And like a wanton, sports with euery feather,
And ideots still are running after boyes,
Then fooles and children fitt'st to go together,
He still as young as when he first was borne,
No wiser I, then when as young as he,
You that be hold vs laugh vs not to scorne,
Giue Nature thankes you are not such as we:
Yet fooles and children sometimes tell in play,
Some wise in shew, more fooles indeede then they.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “To Folly. Sonnet. 22 (Sonnet 22).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/21/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “To Folly. Sonnet. 22 (Sonnet 22).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/21/.

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