reath and blood!
Fiery! the fiery Duke! Tell the hot Duke--
No' but not yet: may be he is not well:
I beg his pardon: and I'll chide my rashness,
That took the indisposed and sickly fit.
For the sound man,---But wherefore sits he there?--
Death on my state! this act convinces me,
That this retiredness of the Duke and her
Is plain contempt--Give me my servant forth--
Go tell the Duke and's wife I'd speak with 'em:
Now: instantly--Bid 'em come forth and hear me;
Or, at their chamber-door, I'll beat the drum--
'Till it cry--Sleep to death.

Elements of Gesture.

SECTION I.

_On the Speaking of Speeches at Schools_.

Elocution has, for some years past, been an object of attention in the
most respectable schools in this country. A laudable ambition of
instructing youth in the pronunciation and delivery of their native
language, has made English speeches a very conspicuous part of those
exhibitions of oratory which do them so much credit.

This attention to English pronunciation has induced several ingenious
men to compile Exercises in Elocution for the use of schools, which have
answered very useful purposes; but none, so far as I have seen, have
attempted to give us a regular system of gesture suited to the wants and
capacities of school-boys. Mr. Burgh, in his Art of Speaking, has given
us a system of the passions, and has shewn us how they appear in the
countenance, and operate on the body; but this system, however useful to
people of riper years, is too delicate and complicated to be taught in
schools. Indeed, the exact adaptation of the action to the word, and the
word to the action, as Shakespear calls it, is the most difficult part
of delivery, and therefore can never be taught perfectly to children; to
say nothing of distracting their attention with two difficult things at
the same time. But that boys should stand motionless, while they are
pronouncing the most impassioned language, is extremely absurd and
unnatural; and that they should sprawl into an aukward, ungain, and
desultory action, is still more offensive and disgusting. What then
remains, but that such a general style of action be adopted, as shall be
easily conceived and easily executed, which, though not expressive of
any particular passion, shall not be inconsistent with the expression of
any passion; which shall always keep the body in a graceful position,
and shall so vary its motio