| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 130 |
| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1516 |
| 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. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1517 |
| 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. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1518 |
| Springes to catch woodcocks. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1519 |
| When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1520 |
| Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 1521 |
| Ham. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| 1522 |
| But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. |
| Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. |
| 1523 |
| Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I ’ll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn’d, |
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