So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and questions deep,
All replication prompt and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passion in his craft of will.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very
torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a
temperance that may give it smoothness
Be not too tame neither, but let your
own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this
special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is
from the purpose.