Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Speak
Parliamentary speaking, like playing on the fiddle, requires practice.
—Earl of Beaconsfield
Speak as if he would jump down your throat.
—John Skelton
Spake
As who bids dead men wake.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Speak like a capon that had the cough.
—Nicholas Udall