3. Explain fully any grammatical peculiarities that occur in the following passages:

(a)

Each following day
Became the next day's master, till the last
Made former wonders its.

(b) Your worship shall along.

(c) My father, king of Spain, was reckon'd one
The wisest prince.

(d) To me you cannot reach you play the spaniel.
(e) An't like your grace.

(f) This many summers.

(g)

Witnesses which the duke desir'd
To have brought vivâ voce to his face.
(h) One sound cudgel of four foot.

(i)

For living murmurers

There's places of rebuke.

(j) I say again, there is no English soul

(k)

More stronger to direct you than yourself.
Sir, your queen

Desires your visitation, and to be

Acquainted with this stranger.

(7) An hundred marks! By this light, I'll ha' more.
An ordinary groom is for such payment.

4. Explain fully the allusions in the following passages:

(a)

That former fabulous story

Being now seen possible enough, got credit
That Bevis was believed.

(b) I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand.
(c) Come, come, my lord, you'd spare your spoons.
Sweetheart,

(d)

I were unmannerly to take you out

And not to kiss you.

(e) Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,
His honour and the greatness of his name

Shall be, and make new nations.

5. Explain the following: Consistory; hulling; silver pillars; sennet; exhalation; salutes; emballing; præmunire; collars of SS; Cinque ports; suggestion; incensed; primero; congee; a tribulation of Tower Hill; in Limbo Patrum.

6. i. Give the etymology of inkling; attainder; bevy; an (= if), reek, gossip, and ween.

ii. Give instances from Henry VIII., (1) of the use of the definite article before the relative; (2) the nominative absolute; (3) the omission of the characteristic sign of the infinitive.

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