Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.
O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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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. 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.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.