Soldiers unpaid, fearful to fight,
Yet bold in dang'rous mutiny.-

These marked, ftrong and forcible.

All these to hear

Would Defdemona feriously incline.

But oft the house-affairs would draw her hence,
Which ever as fhe could with haste dispatch,
She'd come again, and with a greedy ear

Devour up my difcourfe: which I obferving,

Here comes an honeft confeffion of the little advantage he had taken of Desdemona's inclination for him, and a few of the following lines ought therefore to be delivered with a look and manner open and ingenuous.

Took once a pliant hour, and found good means,
To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart,
That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Whereof by parcels fhe had formething heard,
But not diftinctively-I did confent,

In an open, manly, and ingenuous manner.

And often did beguile her of her tears,

This line a little pathetic.

When I did speak of some distressful stroke
That my youth suffer'd.

The fame as the above.

My story being done,

She gave me for my pains a world of fighs,

Full, and at the fame time tender and affectionate.

She

She swore in faith 'twas strange, 'twas paffing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wond'rous pitiful

She wish'd she had not heard it—yet she wish'd

That Heav'n had made her such a man-she thank'd

me,

And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her,
Ifhould but teach him how to tell my ftory,

And that would woo her.

These to be repeated as if it were imitating the manner in which Desdemona used to speak to him-and the following must be delivered in a kind of rapturous con feffion of their mutual affection.

On this hint I fpake;

She lov'd me for the dangers I had past;
And I lov'd her, that fhe did pity them.

This only is the witchcraft I have us❜d.

We have now gone through this inimitable speech from the pen of the immortal Shakspeare, pointing out as we went on, certain places the most prominent, where we thought one particular mode of delivery would better fuit than any other.-Yet there are so many parts ftill unnoticed by us, which require that nicety of expression we before mentioned, that we must leave them to the discriminating powers of the reader himself.

We prefent the following in the Manner as read

By MR. HENDERSON.

ALL the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts:
His acts being seven ages.

The above gentleman fpoke thefe lines in rather a ftrong tone, with a clear, regular articulation.

At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

These he used to deliver in a delicate voice, particularly marking merling and puking. He alfo, after pronouncing "At first," ufed to make a little pause before he proceeded to the words "the infant," and in the manner we before mentioned.

And then the whining school-boy with his fatehel,
And fhining morning face, creeping like frail
Unwillingly to School.

After the words "And then"-he paufed as before, ere he proceeded. The words "creeping like," &c. &c. he delivered as if imitating, by look, voice, and manner, the unwilling fchool-boy, creeping flowly, against his inclination, to school.

And

And then the lover

Sighing like furnace with woeful ballad

Made to his miftrefs' eye-brow.

"And then"-as before, which the fcholar will find by repeating and comparing with the common way, has much the fuperiority. "Sighing like furnace" in a tender and affectionate manner.

Then a foldier,

Full of ftrange oaths, and bearded like the pard;
Jealous in honor, fudden and quick in quarrel;
Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth.

"Then" with a pause, as before. The whole of these lines he spoke with a bold rough voice and manner, as if imitating the foldier.

And then the justice

In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd,
With eyes fevere, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wife faws and modern instances,
And Jo be plays bis part.

"And then" as before.

The remaining lines with a voice and manner resembling those usually adopted when fpeaking any part of Falstaff, until you come to " And fo he, &c. &c." which is to be spoken in a plain eafy manner, as it has nothing to do with the affumed roughness so neceffary in the three preceding lines.

The fixth

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age

"Into the lean and flipper'd pantaloon,

fhifts

With fpectacles on nofe, and pouch on fide,
His youthful hofe well fav'd, a world oo wide
For his fhrunk fhank; and bis big manly voice
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whifiles in the found.

This fine description of a lean, debilitated figure to be spoken with fuch a voice, look and manner as the fense of the lines requires. The words "bis big manly voice," with a frong forcible utterance, and then fuddenly changing the tone to a faint piping ftrain, proceed with the remainder of the fentence.

Laft fcene of all

That ends this strange eventful history,

In rather a folemn, fober manner.

Is fecond childishness, and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, fans eyes, fans taste, fans every thing..

The word fans used to be pronounced by Mr. Henderson juft as it is fpelt, in the English way, not as fome people. do, as if they were repeating it like a French word: The whole line in rather a folemn impreffive manner, and particularly the last three words.

HAMLET TO THE GHOST,.

As repeated by the late Mr. Sheridan.

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ANGELS and minifters of grace defend us!

With a low, folemn, awful voice, as if repeating a short

prayer.