{"id":407728,"date":"2024-04-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=407728"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Shakespeare-s-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Shakespeare-s-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

W. SHAKESPEARE birthday on April 23 \/ ? \/<\/em><\/p>\n

Baptized April 26,1564. Death on April 23, 1616.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE\u2019 from Hamlet.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a famous speech from Shakespeare\u2019s tragic play Hamlet. See how many bits of advice you can find in it that are in common parlance today There are changes in some wording as they are used now.<\/em><\/p>\n

POLONIUS\u2019 ADVICE TO LAERTES<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThere, – my blessing with you!<\/p>\n

And these few precepts in thy memory<\/p>\n

See thou character, – Give thy thoughts no tongue,<\/p>\n

Nor any unproportion\u2019d thought his act.<\/p>\n

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.<\/p>\n

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,<\/p>\n

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;<\/p>\n

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment<\/p>\n

Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware<\/p>\n

Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,<\/p>\n

Bear\u2019t that the opposed may beware of thee.<\/p>\n

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:<\/p>\n

Take each man\u2019s censure, but reserve thy judgement.<\/p>\n

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,<\/p>\n

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy:<\/p>\n

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.<\/p>\n

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,<\/p>\n

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,<\/p>\n

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.<\/p>\n

This above all: to thine own self be true,<\/p>\n

And it must follow, as the night the day,<\/p>\n

Thou canst not then be false to any man.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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