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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Action

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (His directions to the players.)