HAMLET

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as
many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier
spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with 5
your hand thus, but use all gently, for in the very
torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of
passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that
may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to
hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion 10
to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the
groundlings, who for the most part are capable of
nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would
have such a fellow whipped for oferdoing Termagant. It
out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.

(IIIii: 1-14)