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Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 183.
Rude am I in my speech,

And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,

Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd

Their dearest action in the tented field,
And little of this great world can I speak,
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself.

m. Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 81.

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She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act II.
Sc. 1. L. 255.
Your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
0. Richard II. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 6.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

p. BISHOP SOUTH-Sermon. April 30, 1676. Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

9. Attributed to TALLEYRAND by

BARRERE in Memoirs. Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.

Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I hold Of that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!

So should her deathless beauty take no wrong, Praised in her own great kindred's fit and cognate tongue.

Or if that language yet with us abode
Which Adam in the garden talked with God!
But our untempered speech descends-poor
heirs!

Grimy and rough-cast still from Babel's bricklayers:

Curse on the brutish jargon we inherit,
Strong but to damn, not memorise, a spirit!
A cheek, a lip, a limb, a bosom, they
Move with light ease in speech of working-day;
And women we do use to praise even so.
FRANCIS THOMPSON-Her Portrait.

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