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, the whirlwind
of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give
it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split
the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of
nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a
fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet
-- Act iii, Sc. 2
