William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Love’s CollegeJohn Lyly (1555?–1606)
O C
Wherefore hast thou feet and wings?
It is to show how swift thou art
When thou wound’st a tender heart!
Thy wings being clipt, and feet held still,
Thy bow so many could not kill.
Who highest sits, the wise man or the fool.
Fools in love’s college
Have far more knowledge
To read a woman over
Than a neat prating lover:
Nay, ’tis confest
That fools please women best.