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Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;

And they in France, of the best rank and station,
Are of a most select and generous choice in that.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be:

For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all:-To thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, Act I. Sc. III.

2. When the fleet of the Greeks lay off Salamis, where the Athenians had placed their wives and children and all they possessed, a ship came over to them from the enemy and confirmed beyond all doubt the intelligence that they were hemmed in by the forces of Xerxes. Nothing now remained but to brace every nerve for the battle, which the return of day would inevitably bring on. Before they embarked, Themistocles addressed them in a speech, the substance of which, as Herodotus reports it, was simply to set before them on the one side all that was best, on the other all that was worst, in the nature and the condition of man, and to exhort them to choose and hold fast the good. He might truly say that on the issue of that struggle depended all that was noble in the Greek character, all that was beautiful in Grecian life that no advantage which distinguished the Greek from the barbarian, neither virtue and honour, nor prosperity and happiness, could long survive their independence.

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From Greek History. Write such an oration as you suppose Themistocles to have delivered.

3. Venator complaining to Eubulus, his old preceptor, of the unfavourable comparisons which are drawn between Euergetes and himself, speaks as follows:

VENATOR. It is true that Euergetes spends his time in visiting prisons and in devising benevolent schemes, and I am taken up with field-sports, but it is unfair of people to contrast me unfavourably with him. He finds his pleasure in one course and he follows that course, I find mine in another and I follow that. We are, each of us, only pursuing our own inclinations. For I conclude that he would not practise benevolence if he did not find

his chief pleasure in it; and so if we are both seeking the same end, our own gratification, surely there can be no such moral difference between us as the world supposes.

Write the reply of Eubulus, and continue the discussion in the form of a dialogue.

I.

2.

own age,

ENGLISH COMPOSITION. (VI.)

Tell the story of one of Shakespeare's Comedies.

Sketch out your conception of the person of about your whom you would like to have for a friend.

3. "When we have got hold of a law which binds certain facts together, or of a system which classifies some description of natural objects, then we find a wonderful charm and interest in much that we had been used to pass by without a thought

or a look."

Discuss and exemplify this.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION. (VII.)

1. Supposing that after your School or College education were over, you had a year of leisure to spend in reading for your own satisfaction, sketch out the course you would like to follow.

2.

Plan for yourself a tour for a year, describing the way in which you would like to travel and what you would be most anxious to see or to do.

3. Discuss the principle of Bassanio's appeal to the Duke in The Merchant of Venice (iv. 1)—“To do a great right do a little wrong."

ENGLISH COMPOSITION. (VIII.)

I. Write a letter, as to a person unacquainted with England, describing, as vividly as you can, the proceedings at an election

for a member of Parliament.

2. Taking some author from whose works you have derived benefit or pleasure, point out what you consider his special characteristics, and the advantages you have obtained by studying his writings.

3. Write a short essay with the following couplet for its subject,

"For manners are not idle, but the fruit

Of loyal nature and of noble mind."

Idylls of the King.

I.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION. (IX.)

Write, as in a letter to a friend, as vivid an account as you can of the ordinary daily life at a school.

2.

Write a short paper, taking one of the following quotations for its subject:

(a) "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel."
(b) "For solitude sometimes is best society."

ENGLISH COMPOSITION. (X.)

Write a short poem on any one of the following subjects.
Subjects for blank verse :-

I.

2.

(a) A dialogue between Abraham and Isaac.

(b) A destructive inundation.

(c) The heavens declare the glory of God.

For four-line stanzas :-
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(a) The fall of the leaf.

(b) There is no rose without a thorn.

3. For heroic couplets :

(a) Death the gate of life.
(b) The praise of England.

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