Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Player. I warrant your Honor.
Ham. Ham.
Ham. Be not too tame neyther: but let your owne
Ham. Discretion be your Tutor. Sute the Action to the Word,
Ham. the Word to the Action, with this speciall obseruance:
Ham. That you ore‑stop not the modestie of Nature; for any
Ham. thing so ouer‑done, is frō from the purpose of Playing, whose
Ham. end both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twer
Ham. the Mirrour vp to Nature; to shew Vertue her owne
Ham. Feature, Scorne her owne Image, and the verie Age and
Ham. Bodie of the Time, his forme and pressure. Now, this
Ham. ouer‑done, or come tardie off, though it make the vnskil
Ham. full laugh, cannot but make the Iudicious greeue; The
Ham. censure of the which One, must in your allowance o're
Ham. way a whole Theater of Others. Oh, there bee Players
Ham. that I haue seene Play, and heard others praise, and that
Ham. highly (not to speake it prophanely) that neyther hauing
Ham. the accent of Christians, nor the gate of Christian, Pagan,
Ham. or Norman, haue so strutted and bellowed, that I haue
Ham. thought some of Natures Iouerney‑men had made men,