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HAMLET: ACT III, SCENE II. |
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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion |
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be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word |
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to the action; with this special observance, that you |
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o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so |
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overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, |
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both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, |
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the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, |
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scorn her own image, and the very age and body of |
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the time his form and pressure. |
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- William Shakespeare, 1601
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