Ocupation: Poet
Life: 1564 - April 23, 1616
Birthday: 1564
Death: April 23
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, unfledg'd comrade.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58
topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Adoption, New Friendship, My Friendship, Polonius