Prince of Denmarke.
18491206Ham. Pronounce me this
speech trippingly a the tongue
18501208Mary and you mouth it, as a many of your players do
18511209I'de rather heare a towne bull bellow,
1210Then
such a fellow
speake my lines.
18521211Nor do not
saw the aire thus with your hands,
18531212But giue euery thing his a
ction with temperance.
18561213O it o
ffends mee to the
soule, to heare a rebu
stious periwig
(fellow, 18571214To teare a pa
ssion in totters, into very ragges,
18581215To
split the eares of the ignoraut, who for the
18591216Mo
st parte are capable of nothing but dumbe
shewes and
(noises, 18601217I would haue
such a fellow whipt, for o're doing, tarmagant
18841219players My Lorde, wee haue indi
fferently reformed that
18861221Ham. The better, the better, mend it all together:
18761222There be fellowes that I haue
seene play,
18771223And heard others commend them, and that highly too,
18781224That hauing neither the gate of Chri
stian, Pagan,
18801225Nor Turke, haue
so
strutted and bellowed,
1226That you would a thought,
some of Natures journeymen
18811227Had made men, and not made them well,
18821228They imitated humanitie,
so abhominable:
1231Ham. And doe you heare? let not your Clowne
speake
18871232More then is
set downe, there be of them I can tell you
18881233That will laugh them
selues, to
set on
some
18891234Quantitie of barren
spe
ctators to laugh with them,
18901235Albeit there is
some nece
ssary point in the Play
18911236Then to be ob
serued: O t'is vile, and
shewes
18921237A pittifull ambition in the foole the v
seth it.
1892.11238And then you haue
some agen, that keepes one
sute
1892.21239O
s iea
sts, as a man is knowne by one
sute of
1892.31240Apparell, and Gentlemen quotes his iea
sts downe
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