air."

Then once more I bid you approach the subject of Vocal Interpretation in
a new spirit. Let your study of the thought in these sentences hold in
its initial impulse this idea: "I have something I _must tell you_!" Try
prefacing your interpretation with some such phrase as this: "Listen to
me!" or, "I want to tell you something."

I would suggest as a preliminary exercise that you should try "shooting
at a mark" these single words: "No!" "Yes!" "Come!" "Go!" "Aim!" "Fire!"
"Help!" "What ho!"

Listen to me!

"You will find the gayest castles in the air far better for comfort
and for use than the dungeons that are daily dug and caverned out
by grumbling, discontented people."--EMERSON.

Let me tell you something!

"Might is right, say many, and so it is. Might is the right to bear
the burdens of the weak, to cheer the faint, to uplift the fallen,
to pour from one's own full store to the need of the
famishing."--NAPIER.

It is the angel-aim and standard in an act that consecrates it. He
who aims for perfection in a trifle is trying to do that trifle
holily. The trier wears the halo, and, therefore, the halo grows as
quickly round the brows of peasant as of king.--GANNETT.

Think twice before you speak, my son; and it will do no harm if you
keep on thinking while you speak.--ANONYMOUS.

Sweet friends
Man's love ascends,
To finer and diviner ends
Than man's mere thought e'er comprehends.

--LANIER.

SUGGESTIVE ANALYSIS

HAMLET'S SPEECH TO THE PLAYERS

_Hamlet:_ Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,
trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your
players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not
saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently: for
in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your
passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it
smoothness....

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, for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,
whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as
'twere, the mirror up to nature; to