To the editor:

I hope I am not the only one who picked up on the error in the story on “Quoting Shakespeare.” Marjorie Garber puts Polonius and the famous, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be … to thine own self be true,” speech in Julius Caesar.

Polonius is Ophelia’s father in “Hamlet.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,

For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.

This above all, to thine own self be true.

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

According to Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson in “A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare,” scholars suggest that Polonius was modeled after Lord Burghley, chief adviser to Elizabeth I and state treasurer from 1572 to 1598.

Christine Shively,

Ozawkie