StoryTitle("caps", "Polonius' Advice") ?>
by William Shakespeare, Hamlet
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet here, Laertes? aboard, aboard for shame!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you are stay'd for. There, my blessing with you!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And these few precepts in thy memory", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor any unproportioned thought his act.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But do not dull thy palm with entertainment", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of each new hatch'd, unfledg’d comrade. Beware", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the apparel oft proclaims the man;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they in France, of the best rank and station,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are most select and generous, chief in that.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For loan oft loses both itself and friend;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This above all,—to thine own self be true;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it must follow, as the night the day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou canst not then be false to any man.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>