Because, sister, your words are knocking out the brains of unfortunate me; you are speaking stones. So Shakespeare says, (above) “I will speak daggers to her, but use none;” and Aristophanes says in one of his plays, “You have spoken roses to me.” Riley’s Plautus.—The Aulularia, Act II. Scene 1.
Lys. He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows not the stop. It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. Hip. Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government. The. His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired but all disordered. Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Sc. 1.
