Consider her as the person whose interests may be more closely allied
with your own than those of any other soul on earth. It certainly cannot
lessen your respect for the high relation she sustains toward your life
and your happiness. Counsel her in exceeding kindness, for you will
find her inclined to retort, as did _Ophelia_ to her brother _Laertes_,
at the head of this chapter, bidding you be sure you "reck your own
rede" which was an ancient form of admonishing one to heed his own
advice.
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