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  • From: Jeffrey Newman <newman@bcinternet.net>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Polonius' advice
  • Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 17:05:00 -0800

Careful, Michael, Hamlet considered Polonius an "old fool"; but them Hamlet
was not
very politically correct either.

Jeffrey

Michael Yount wrote:

> Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard for shame!
> The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
> And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
> And these few precepts in thy memory
> Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
> Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
> Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
> Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
> Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,
> But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
> Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade. Beware
> Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
> Bear 't, that the 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,
> 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:
> 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.
> Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
>
> (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III)

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