| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Love’s College | | By John Lyly (1555?–1606) |
| | | O CUPID! monarch over kings, | |
| 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, | 5 |
| Thy bow so many could not kill. | |
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| It is all one in Venus’ wanton school, | |
| Who highest sits, the wise man or the fool. | |
| Fools in love’s college | |
| Have far more knowledge | 10 |
| To read a woman over | |
| Than a neat prating lover: | |
| Nay, ’tis confest | |
| That fools please women best. | | | | |
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