...lesson that a courtier learns. Let us quote another specimen of his paternal admonitions. " Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." Polonius might have picked up this marvellous scrap...

...they in France, of the best rank and station, Are most select and generous,j uhief § in that. 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:...

...in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. 73 Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. 76 This above all, to thine own self be true, And...

...as the spirit of his dead father. The Ghost tells how he was 14 Polonius's advice to his son 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 tme, And it...

...they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. 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...

...Credit is predicated on the promise that it will be repaid. Shakespeare's words in Hamlet, "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend — " is only true if we do not repay our loans and the gratitude that goes with them. Indeed...

...echoed his ethics of individualism in the words of the fussy Polonius, who advises his son, Neither a borrower, nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.36 For the agrarian reformer, the inevitable corollary...

...- Use and Abuse', he quotes three lines from Shakespeare without naming the exact source: 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend, / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.'3 It was on this didactic and utilitarian note...

...they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. This above all, to thine own self be true, And it...

...and launched into a soliloquy from Hamlet. His rich baritone resonated across the theater. 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...