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Hub. If I in act, consent, or sin of thought
Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,
Let hell want pains enough to torture me!
I left him well.

Faul.

Go, bear him in thine arms.I am amaz'd, methinks; and lose my way Among the thorns and dangers of this world. How easy dost thou take all England up! From forth this morsel of dead royalty, 145 The life, the right, and truth of all this realm Is fled to heaven; and England now is left To tug and scamble, and to part by the teeth The unow'd interest of proud swelling state." Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty3 150 Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace: Now powers from home, and discontents at home, Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits, (As doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast), 155 The imminent decay of wrested pomp.

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Now happy he, whose cloak and cinctureR can
Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child,
And follow me with speed: I'll to the king:
A thousand businesses are brief" in hand,
160 And heaven itself doth frown upon the land.

[Exeunt.

From King John.-Shakspeare.

in'-no-cen-cy

dis-con-tents'

snarl'-eth

APPENDICES.

I.-EXPLANATORY NOTES.

II.-NOTES ON AUTHORS.

III. VOCABULARY.

APPENDIX I.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

LESSON I.

1. Beelzebub, in the Hebrew, signifies the lord of flies.

LESSON II.

1. Opposite here means opponent.

2. Native stock.-The material stored up within the spider, and out of which the web is woven.

3. Foreign in this case means outside, or external.

LESSON V.

1. Knights of the Bath.-The word knight is from the Saxon cniht, a servant, and means a servant of the king. The Order of the Bath is of early origin, but was formally constituted in 1399, by Henry IV., two days previous to his coronation in the Tower. Fortysix esquires were "knighted" after having watched the whole of the previous night, and each one entered a bath. There are various other orders of knighthood.

LESSON VI.

1. The thistle.-The Danes thought it cowardly to attack a foe by night; but on one occasion, as the story goes, they broke their rule. On they crept barefooted, when one man set his foot on a thistle, which made him cry out. The alarm was given, and the Scotch fell on the Danes and defeated them with great slaughter. Since that time, it is said, the thistle has been adopted as Scotland's badge of honour.

2. Deep-labouring organ. Intended to convey the idea of the organ struggling to bring up notes from the deep bass as if from an abyss.

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LESSON VII.

1. A wide plain.-Observe there is no verb belonging to this noun. The phrase forms in itself a descriptive announcement, as though it were "behold, a wide plain, &c."

2. Beaver bonnet.-It was once a fashion to wear bonnets made of the skin of the animal called a beaver.

LESSON VIII.

1. The Bastile.-The French spelling is "Bastille." The word simply means. a building. But it was applied specially to a castle erected in Paris by Charles V. as the royal mansion. Louis XI. first used it as a State prison. It was destroyed by the people in the French Revolution, 14th July, 1789.

LESSON X.

1. Its appeal to what is immortal in us is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential.—What is immortal is the soul and its affections. The glory of the sky appeals to and touches these. What is mortal is the body and its appetites. The sky ministers to these by giving "rain and fruitful seasons." But it also rebukes or chastises, when lightning or storm destroys the wealth of which men made their boast. The author says this ministry of chastisement or blessing is essential to the sky, meaning it is part of its nature, and he says also that the appeal of the sky to the soul and its affections is no less real.

LESSON XI.

1. Scorching circle in the blackness of vacuity.-Vacuity, emptiness. The air and the watery vapour in the air diffuse and soften the sunlight. The clouds reflect it in various colours. Without the clouds and air all the space between us and the sun would be a black vacuity or hollow, in which the sun would seem as a burning ball.

2. Drink the overflowing of the dayspring.-The sun just below the horizon is like a fountain of light bubbling up. The overflowing of the spring touches the mountain tops.

LESSON XII.

1. Great Charter.-Commonly known by its Latin name Magna Charta. It was a charter of rights given to the people by King John, in 1215, under pressure and threats from the barons.