Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Players
O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature’s journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To the Players.)