Many Friends Are Too Few Poem by Ray Remalig

What many friends are for?
A quantity won't matter.
If you have few or more,
Shan't always count a number.

If you have many friends,
Each one has cheaper value;
For in the bitter ends,
You have but only too few.

A few is many if
Their qualities are genuine;
In much there's more mischief,
But fewer less there had been.

Yes, you may can collect,
For friends indeed are treasures;
But better far select,
And count by names-not numbers.