“Give thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his ACT.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:

The friends thou hast, and their adoption TRIED,

Grapple them to THY SOUL with hooks of STEEL;

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,

Bear it that the opposer may BEWARE of thee.

Give every man thine EAR, but few thy VOICE;