496343Speakes from his heart, but yet take heed my sister,

499344The Chariest maide is prodigall enough,

500345If she vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.

501346Vertue it selfe scapes not calumnious thoughts,

347Belieu't Ofelia, therefore keepe a loofe

496.1348Lest that he trip thy honor and thy fame.

496.2349Ofel. Brother, to this I haue lent attentiue eare,

496.3350And doubt not but to keepe my honour firme,

509351But my deere brother, do not you

510352Like to a cunning Sophister,

511353Teach me the path and ready way to heauen,

511.1354While you forgetting what is said to me,

512355Your selfe, like to a carelesse libertine

512.1356Doth giue his heart, his appetite at ful,

514357And little recks how that his honour dies.

515358Lear. No, feare it not my deere Ofelia,

517359Here comes my father, occasion smiles vpon a second leaue.

520361Cor. Yet here Leartes? aboord, aboord, for shame,

521362The winde sits in the shoulder of your saile,

522363And you are staid for, there my blessing with thee

523364And these few precepts in thy memory.

526365"Be thou familiar, but by no meanes vulgare;

527366"Those friends thou hast, and their adoptions tried,

528367"Graple them to thee with a hoope of steele,

529368"But do not dull the palme with entertaine,

530369"Of euery new vnfleg'd courage,

370"Beware of entrance into a quarrell; but being in,

532371"Beare it that the opposed may beware of thee,

535372"Costly thy apparrell, as thy purse can buy.

536373"But not exprest in fashion,

537374"For the apparrell oft proclaimes the man.

538375And they of France of the chiefe rancke and station

539376Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that:

543377"This aboue all, to thy owne selfe be true,

544378And it must follow as the night the day,

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