{"id":1396,"date":"2019-04-28T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2019-05-04T03:01:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:01:39","slug":"of-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Of a Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do hate<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> fools, for they my brains do crack,
\nAnd when they speak, my patience\u2019s on the rack.
\nTheir actions all from reason quite do run;
\nTheir ends prove bad, \u2019cause ill they first begun.
\nThey fly from wisdom, do her counsels fear, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5
\nAs if some ruin near their heads there were.
\nThey seek the shadow, let the substance go,
\nAnd what is good or best, they do not know.
\nYet stiff in their opinions, stubborn, strong,<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nAlthough you bray them, sayeth Solomon.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10
\nAs spiders\u2019 webs entangle little flies,<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nSo fools wrapped up in webs of errors lie;<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nThen comes<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> the spider, flies with poison fills;
\nSo mischief, after errors, fools oft kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do hate fools, for they my brains do crack, And when they speak, my patience\u2019s on the rack. Their actions all from reason quite do run; Their ends prove bad, \u2019cause ill they first begun. They fly from wisdom, do her counsels fear, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 As if some ruin near their heads … Continue reading Of a Fool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-discourses","category-part2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}