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Ham.
Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd
it to you trippingly on the Tongue; But if you mouth it,
as many of your Players do, I had as liue the Town‑Cryer
had spoke my Lines: Nor do not saw the Ayre too much
your hand thus, but vse all gently; for in the verie Tor
rent, Tempest, and (as I may say) the Whirle‑winde of
Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that
may giue it Smoothnesse. O it offends mee to the Soule,
to see a robustious Pery‑wig‑pated Fellow, teare a Passi
on to tatters, to verie ragges, to split the eares of the
Groundlings: who (for the most part) are capeable of
nothing, but inexplicable dumbe shewes, & noise: I could