The Advice of Polonius Copywork
A father sends his son abroad with a handful of hard-won rules.
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Polonius sends Laertes off to France with a string of maxims that have outlived the play, including "to thine ownself be true." Copying them out slowly gives students time to weigh each precept as handwriting practice. A favorite for character studies, commonplace books, and graduation-season lessons. 13 pages, 1/4-inch letters in manuscript print on dashed manuscript lines. Sheets included: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only. Hamlet, Act I Scene 3. Public domain text.
ON THIS SHEET: Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! · The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, · And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! · And these few precepts in thy memory · See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, · Nor any unproportioned thought his act. · Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. · Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, · Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; · But do not dull thy palm with entertainment · Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. 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, · And 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 ownself be true, · And it must follow, as the night the day, · Thou canst not then be false to any man. · Farewell: my blessing season this in thee! — Hamlet, Act I Scene 3. LETTER SIZE: 1/4-inch. HANDWRITING: manuscript print. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only.
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