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Ham.
Be not too tame neyther: but let your owne
Discretion be your Tutor. Sute the Action to the Word,
the Word to the Action, with this speciall obseruance:
That you ore‑stop not the modestie of Nature; for any
thing so ouer‑done, is frō the purpose of Playing, whose
end both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twer
the Mirrour vp to Nature; to shew Vertue her owne
Feature, Scorne her owne Image, and the verie Age and
Bodie of the Time, his forme and pressure. Now, this
ouer‑done, or come tardie off, though it make the vnskil
full laugh, cannot but make the Iudicious greeue; The
censure of the which One, must in your allowance o're