Worcester.

PART II.

EXERCISE 1 (a).

Peace, cousin, say no more!
And now I will unclasp a secret book,
And to your quick-conceiving discontents
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,
As full of peril and adventurous spirit
As to o'erwalk a current roaring loud
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
Hotspur. If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim :
Send danger from the east unto the west,

So honour cross it from the north to south,
And let them grapple: O the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

Hints.

'Peace, cousin' &c.-will you not be silent and not &c. . . . See Soph. Aj. 75.

'Quick-conceiving discontents'-to you anticipating to learn in bitter wrath.

'To overwalk' &c.-if you were to go yepupwσas a torrent, Topoμeuwr your unsteady foot &c.

'If he fall' &c.-irw the faller, for 'tis a crisis to swim or die.

'Send danger' &c.-let whatever is dúoxov come Tаσтроv, against honour meeting it right-opposite. • The blood stirs,” ἀνεπτόμην.

EXERCISE 1 (b).

Northumberland. Imagination of some great exploit
Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.
H. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,

Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks;
So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
Without corrival all her dignities:

But out upon this half-faced fellowship!

Shakspeare.

'Imagination' &c.-The man seems to be inspired &c. and not owppovɛiv.

'Methinks' &c.-I think that leaping I could easily snatch &c.

Bright-pale-faced, χρυσώψ—ἀργυρώψ.

'Where fathom-line' &c.-where σrá¤μŋ μǹ kéλσEL (for this u see Soph. Aj. 659).

'So that' &c.-' (with infin.).
'Out upon '-éppéro this &c.

EXERCISE 2.

Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy

To stand upon my kingdom once again.
Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,
Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:
As a long-parted mother with her child

Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,
So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,

And do thee favour with my royal hands. Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth, Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense; But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom, And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way, Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet Which with usurping steps do trample thee. Shakspeare. "Needs must' &c.-how do I not rejoice and weep &c.

'As a long-parted mother' &c.- -as some mother Xpovía in converse with her child (gen.) laughs with flood of tears.

'Feed not' &c.-(make two lines of this, the first entreating gentle earth, the second conveying the subject of entreaty).

• Ravenous ’—μαργῶν.

'Heavy-gaited toads' &c.—heavy toads with dúopopol ovμßolai injure the feet of traitors &c. • Trample’—λὰξ πατεῖν,

EXERCISE 3 (a).

Marmaduke. Time, since man first drew breath, has

never moved

With such a weight upon his wings as now;

But they will soon be lightened.

Oswald.

Ay, look up

Cast round you your mind's eye, and you will learn
Fortitude is the child of Enterprise :

Great actions move our admiration, chiefly

M.

Because they carry in themselves an earnest
That we can suffer greatly.

Very true. 0. Action is transitory-a step, a blow,

The motion of a muscle-this way or that,
'Tis done, and in the after vacancy
We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed:
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And shares the nature of infinity.

'But they will soon' &c.—and yet he will quickly lighten them (divide the lines to speakers just as in English).

• Fortitude-experience

ἀνδρία-πεῖρα.

'Because they carry' &c.-since they Onkav ivé

Xupov of a mind equal (oios) to bear nobly.

χυρον

• Action τὸ ποιεῖν.

This way or that '-inclining as it might chance.

Suffering 'τὸ δ' αὖ παθεῖν.

• Infinity —ἄπειρος φύσις.

EXERCISE 3 (b).

M. Truth and I feel it.

0.

What! if you had bid

M.

Eternal farewell to unmingled joy

And the light dancing of the thoughtless heart;
It is the toy of fools, and little fit

For such a world as this. The wise abjure

All thoughts whose idle composition lives

In the entire forgetfulness of pain.

—I see I have disturbed you.

By no means.