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Nor any unproportion’d thought his act. [60]
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d courage. Beware [65]
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear’t that th’opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, [70]
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;

For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, [75]

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day

Thou canst not then be false to any man. [80]
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee.

LAERTES
Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.

POLONIUS
The time invests you; go, your servants tend.

LAERTES
Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well

What I have said to you.

OPHELIA

’Tis in my memory lock’d, [85]
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

LAERTES