But if you mouth it as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines.
O, 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.
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing.
So strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.