Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Action
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.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (His directions to the players.)