Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you,
trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your 
players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor 
do not saw theair too much with your hand thus, but use all 
gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, 
whirlwind of your 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 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'erdoing Termagant — it out-Herods Herod.
Pray you avoid it.

- Hamlet(3.2.1-36)

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