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4. Explain the following passages, dicussing the words italicized, and assigning each passage to its speaker.

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(a) And from the cross-row plucks the letter G. (i. 1. 55.)
(b) Are mighty gossips in this monarchy. (i. 1.
(c) Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest. (i. 3. 270.)
(d) He is franked up to fatting for his pains. (i. 3. 314.)
(e) I say, without characters, fame lives long.

Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,

I moralize two meanings in one word. (iii. 1. 81.) (f) Why let it strike?

Because that, like a jack, thou keep'st the stroke

Betwixt thy begging and my meditation. (iv. 2. 116.) 5+ In what sense do the following words occur:-obsequiously-pilled-teen-pewfellow-peise-fire-new-malapert

-bottled spider—to jet?

What is a sennet? what a basilisk? what is meant by Humphry hour?

I.

KING HENRY VIII.

What are some of the sources of this play? Over how long a time does the action extend? What are the principal historical events of which it treats?

2. Give an account of the charges against, and the fate of, the duke of Buckingham. What was the fate of his father? "Those twins of learning, that he raised in you, Ipswich and Oxford." (iv. 2. 58.)

3.

Explain this allusion; and narrate the rise, success, and fall of Wolsey.

4. "I know her for a spleeny Lutheran" (iii. 2. 98). Explain this allusion, and shew how Henry's marriage with Anna Bullen affected the progress of the Reformation.

5. Paraphrase the following passages, with notes upon the words italicized; and assign them, where you can, to the speakers: If we live thus tamely,

(a)

To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
Farewell nobility: let his grace go forward,

And dare us with his cap like larks. (iii. 2. 279.)

(b) Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow. (ii. 3. 21.)

(c)

-before the primest creature

That's paragoned o' the world. (ii. 4. 228.)

(d)

(e)

-holy men I thought ye,

Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues ;
But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye.

(iii. 1. 102.)

-do you take the court for Paris-garden?

(v. 4. 2.)

(ƒ) I missed the meteor once, and hit that woman, who
cried out Clubs! (v. 4. 52.)

(g) And here ye lie baiting of bombards, when
Ye should do service. (v. 4. 85.)

(h) You i' the camlet, get up o' the rail;

I'll pick you o'er the pales else. (v. 4. 93.)

6. In the passage "fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels" (iii. 2. 441)-whence did the idea italicized arise, and what sort of authority is there for it?

7. Explain the words and phrases :-keech, guarded with yellow, a præmunire, the consistory of Rome, hulling in the wild sea, soft cheveril conscience, chambers, mo, till her pink porringer fell off her head.

8. Compare Cranmer's prophecy concerning the character and reign of queen Elizabeth with its fulfilment.

CORIOLANUS.

I. What was Shakespeare's authority for this play? Did he derive any other plays from the same source? Briefly sketch the plot of it.

2. Comment briefly upon the characters of Coriolanus and Menenius.

3. Explain the following passages, with brief notes where required.

(a) Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes.

(i. 1. 23.)

(b) Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,
Lead'st first to win some vantage. (i. J. 163.)

(c) To the pot, I warrant him. (i. 4. 47.)

(d) -the kitchen malkin pins

Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck. (ii. 1. 224.) (e) Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you

His absolute shall? COM. 'Twas from the canon.

(iii. 1. 89.)

(f) He waged me with his countenance, as if

I had been mercenary.

(v. 6. 40.)

4. Explain the following passages, adopting and defending what readings you think best.

(a) When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,

Let him be made an overture of the wars. (i. 9. 45.)

(b) I have a heart as little apt as yours,

But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
To better vantage. (iii. 2. 29.)

(c) And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done. (iv. 7. 51.)

5. Explain the phrases:

To break the heart of generosity-who, having been supple and courteous to the people, bonneted-This is clean kam-ill schooled In boulted language-Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece Will bear the knave by the volume-You common cry of curs!—it is lots to blanks (he) talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery-You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs.

6. Discuss the forms catched and caught; and explain and derive the words :-mammocked-bisson-rejourn-fosset-seller

-God-den-fond-cautelous-atone-shent.

CORIOLANUS.

I. Sketch the plot of Coriolanus.

What authority does

Shakespeare chiefly follow? What anachronisms occur in the play?

2. Paraphrase these passages, adopting the readings which you prefer:

(a) Mar. May these same instruments which you profane
Never sound more! when drums and trumpets shall

I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
Made all of false-faced soothing!

When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,

Let him be made a coverture for the wars!

No more, I say! (i. 9. 41.)

(b) Sic. We hear not of him, neither need we fear him;
His remedies are tame i' the present peace

And quietness of the people, which before
Were in wild hurry (iv. 6. 1).

(c)

So our virtues

Lie in the interpretation of the time;
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done (iv. 7. 49).

3. Explain:

(a)

(b)

I'ld make a quarry

With thousands of these quartered slaves, as high
As I could pick my lance. (i. 1. 202.)

a strange (petition)—

To break the heart of generosity,

And make bold power look pale. (i. 1. 214.)
(c) From whom I have received not only greetings,

But with them change of honours. (ii. 1. 213.)

(d) He hath deserved worthily of his country; and his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who, having been supple and courteous to the people, bonneted, without any further deed to have them at all into their estimation and report. (e) Cor. Mark you his absolute 'shall '?

from the canon. (iii. 1. 89.)

Com.

(ii. 2.) 'Twas

(f) Men. Calmly, I do beseech you. Cor. Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece Will bear the knave by the volume. (iii. 3. 31.)

4.

(g) He wag'd me with his countenance, as if

I had been mercenary. (v. 6. 40.)

Illustrate from Hamlet or from Coriolanus any peculiar uses of these words :-abridgment—affront—to articulate-to curb -defeat-demerit-difference-disappointed-ecstasy-to

rival-success-union.

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And give some account of these words :-to beleem-bisson— carbonado-escoted-scrimer-shent-to soul-unhouseled.

JULIUS CÆSAR.

I. From what sources did Shakespeare probably draw the materials for his Roman plays?

Do you

2. Contrast the characters of Brutus and Cassius. agree with Shakespeare's view of the former, (as put into the mouth of Antonius at the end of the play)? Are they made to act in accordance with the schools of philosophy they severally represent?

3. M. Guizot says, "if Brutus is the hero, Cæsar is the subject of the play." Develope this statement.

4. What is the character of Cicero given in this play?

5. Mention any words which in Shakespeare's lines must have been pronounced or accented differently from the present

usage.

6. In what senses, now obsolete, are these words used:ceremony, alchemy, carrion, physical, fond, element, and climate?

7. Paraphrase the following passages with as little amplification as possible, so as to bring out the force of the less usual expressions.

I.

(a) Between the acting of a dreadful thing

And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream:
The genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council, and the state of man
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection. (ii. 1. 63.)
(b) Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber :
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies
Which busy care draws in the brains of men.

(c)

(ii. 1. 230.) -the world, 'tis furnished well with men, And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive; Yet in the number I do know but one That unassailable holds on his rank Unshaked of motion. (iii. 1. 66.)

(d) That every like is not the same, O Cæsar,

The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon. (ii. 2. 128.)

JULIUS CAESAR.

Whence did Shakespeare derive the materials for the history of Julius Cæsar? Cæsar says (A. i. Sc. 2):

Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf.

Brutus says (ibid.):

'Tis very like; he hath the falling sickness.

Are these facts traceable to any author? Whence comes the expression-" Et tu, Brute"?

2.

(a) Ought not walk. (i. 1. 3.) Explain this construction. (b) I turn the trouble of my countenance

Merely upon myself (i. 2. 38.)

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