Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Speak

Parliamentary speaking, like playing on the fiddle, requires practice.
—Earl of Beaconsfield

Speak as if he would jump down your throat.
—John Skelton

Spake
As who bids dead men wake.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Speak like a capon that had the cough.
—Nicholas Udall