Possible Clues:

• Emulated Isocrates
• How one, or a boy, made a speech
• Gave people your address
• Got windy, in a way
• Made a speech of the alternative to a boy
• Delivered the eulogy, say
• Nothing reckoned, in a manner of speaking
• Spoke of the alternative to a boy, it seems
• Expounded
• the alternative to a boy, or so it is said