. Shakespeare the player, and other papers illustrative of Shakespeare's individuality . ll imagine his pride atbeing able to render pecuniary assistance to his friend theex-bailiff. When we remember the famous advice whichPolonius gave to his son Laertes— Neither a borrower nor a lender be ;For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry; and also recollect that Hamlet was not yet written, it wereidle to speculate as to whom the dramatist had in mind whenhe made Polonius the medium of his own views on the sub-ject ; but it is safe to say he had not forgotte
. Shakespeare the player, and other papers illustrative of Shakespeare's individuality . ll imagine his pride atbeing able to render pecuniary assistance to his friend theex-bailiff. When we remember the famous advice whichPolonius gave to his son Laertes— Neither a borrower nor a lender be ;For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry; and also recollect that Hamlet was not yet written, it wereidle to speculate as to whom the dramatist had in mind whenhe made Polonius the medium of his own views on the sub-ject ; but it is safe to say he had not forgotten that stillextant letter addressed to him from the Bell in i CarterLane. A Special FriendHenry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton Of Shakespeares own personal friends, apart from hisfamily relations, it is impossible to single out any individualof whom it might be said that he, or she, more than any other,was privileged in having a special intimacy with the poetduring some period of his life. That he himself enjoyed theblessing of troops of friends, admitted to varying degrees. HENRY WBIOTHESLEY, THIRD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON From the original of Mirevclt, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford SOME OF SHAKESPEARES KINSFOLK 95 of his intimacy and affection, may be taken for granted ;there is testimony on record for saying this at least. Butwith regard to the place in the love or esteem which Shake-speare had for his friends, and which they had for him, atrue kinship of mind and spirit ought perhaps to be reckonedwith first of all. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. These words of wisdom contain the essence of Shakespearesown philosophy of friendship, and, we may be sure, wereever acted upon by him in his contact with his as to that spirit of adoption,—whence could it pro-ceed but from that state of the marriage of true minds,to which he refers in a famous sonnet, and which has itsfons et origo in
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