Right so flatereris and fooles Arn the fendes disciples To entice men thorugh hir tales To synne and to harlotrie.
Ac japeres and jangeleres, Judas children, 70 Feynen hem fantasies, And fooles hem maketh, And han hire wit at wille To werken, if thei wolde.
They are well described by the poet: As japers and janglers, Judas chyldren, Fayneth them fantasies, and fooles them maketh.
The proverb is thus versified by John Heywood, A fooles bolte is soone shot, and fleeth oftymes fer But the fooles bolte, and the marke, cum few times ner.
Marry, said Scogin, I have spyed a sort of knaves that doe mocke me, and are worse fooles themselves.
O sweet Sir, Keep your good morrow to coole your Worships pottage, A couple of the worldsfooles met together To raise up dirt and dunghils.
Good Noddie, now leaue scribbling in such matters; They are no tooles for fooles to tend unto; Wise men regard not what mad monkies patters!
No vertuous dede or zelous worke can want due prayse of the honest, though faulting fooles and youthly heades full ofte do chaunt the faultles checke, that Momus mouth did once finde out in Venus slipper.
Those that I reuerence, those I feare: the Wise: At Fooles I laugh: not feare them Clot.
Flow, flow You Heauenly blessings on her: This Fooles speede Be crost with slownesse; Labour be his meede.
Away, away Corrupters of my Faith, you shall no more Be Stomachers to my heart: thus may pooru Fooles Beleeue false Teachers: Though those that are betraid Do feele the Treason sharpely, yet the Traitor Stands in worse case of woe.
Fooles had nere lesse grace in a yeere, For wisemen are growne foppish, And know not how their wits to weare, Their manners are so apish Le.
And to conclude shortly upon reason, To speke of wedlocke of fooles that be blente, There is no greter grefe nor feller poyson, Nor none so dredeful peryllous serpent, As is a wyfe double of her entent.
And hauing thus a while each other thwarted, Fooles as we met, so fooles againe we parted.
Of fooles and madmen leaue thou then the care, That haue no vnderstanding of their state: For whom high heauen doth so iust plagues prepare, That they to pitty shall conuert thy hate.
Who hath no witte, nor none will heare, amongest all fooles the bell may beare.
This people (sayth he) be fooles and dulhedes to all goodnes, but sotle, cunning and bolde, in any mischiefe.
This History also yeldeth contempt of them, which in their affection forget themselues abasing the Generosity of their Courages to be reputed of fooles the true champions of loue, whose like are they that desire such regarde.
Wee poore Gentlemen, that want acres, Must for our needs, turnefooles vp and plough Ladies.
And ’tis a knowledge, wherein fooles may be As wiſe as a Count Parliament.
Boy, boy, 15 We liue, by finding fooles out, to be truſted.
But wrecches and fooles and leude men, many wil conceyve a thing and mayntayne it as for sothe, though reson be in the contrarye; wherfore conninge is a straunger.
But alday fayleth thing thatfooles wenden'; certainly the right reading of Troil.
Then after great Argylles hoste Some horssmen tuik the chess, Quha turned their backes for all thair bost, 275 Contrair the fooles say[s].
I, to see meate fill Knaues, and Wine heat fooles 2 Farthee well, farthee well Ape.
Matrons, turne incontinent, Obedience fayle in Children: Slaues and Fooles Plucke the graue wrinkled Senate from the Bench, And minister in their steeds, to generall Filthes.
Thus honest Fooles lay out their wealth on Curtsies Tim.
Spare not the Babe Whose dimpled smiles from Foolesexhaust their mercy; Thinke it a Bastard, whom the Oracle Hath doubtfully pronounced, the throat shall cut, And mince it sans remorse.
The thought of this begets that brave disdaine With which thou view'st the world and makes those vaine Treasures of fancy, seriousfooles so court, And sweat to purchase, thy contempt or sport.
But all we Poets glory in, is vaine And empty triumph: Art cannot regaine One poore houre lost, nor reskew a small flye By a fooles finger destinate to dye.
Whereupon the men falling to cursing and swearing, the women to scolding, scratching, and biting, were fame to depart like fooles indeed.
Now you have heard the sound of the drumme You may all depart likefooles as you come.
What Fooles are they, who seeke the Conquest, by Oppression, Fraud, or hellish Perjurie?
I could not from a Prince beseech a boone By suing to his Iester or Buffoone: Nor, any Fooles vaine humor, sooth or serve, To get my bread, though I were like to starve.
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