Enter Polonius.[301]
A double blessing is a double grace;[302]
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
Pol. Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard, for shame![303] 55
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee![304]
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,[305]
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. 60
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,[306]
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,[307]
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment[308]
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware[309] 65
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't, that th' opposed may beware of thee.[310]
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice:[311]
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
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.[312]
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:[313] 75
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,[314]
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.[315]
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,[316]
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 80
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee![317]
Laer. Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.[318]
Pol. The time invites you; go, your servants tend.[319]
Laer. Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
What I have said to you.
Oph. 'Tis in my memory lock'd,[320] 85
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
Laer. Farewell. [Exit.[321]
Pol. What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?[322]