(1) Subject, “(Ye) Lords and Commons of England!" (2) Predicate, "consider."

B. "What nation it is."

Substantive sentence, subordinate

to, and forming the object of, A.

(1) Subject," it.”

(2) Predicate, "is what nation."

C. "Whereof ye are." Adjective sentence, subordinate to B, equivalent to "of which ye are,” and describing the "nation." (1) Subject, “ye.”

D. "And whereof ye are the governors." Adjective sentence, subordinate to B, and co-ordinate with C. The connecting word is the co-ordinative conjunction "and."

(d)

(1) Subject, "ye."

(2) Predicate, "are the governors," enlarged by the adjunct" whereof."

Consider

what

nation

it

is

whereof

ye

Reg. trans. verb, pres. tense, imperative mood, 2nd pers. plur., agreeing with its nom. "ye” understood.

Relative pronominal adjective, qualifying "nation."

Com. noun, sing., neut., nom. after "is." The regular order is, "it is what nation."

Personal pronoun used indefinitely as the nominative to the verb "is." Properly speaking "it" refers to "the nation."

Irreg. intrans. verb, pres. tense, indic. mood, 3rd pers. sing., agreeing with its nom. "it." Equivalent to “of which.” "Which" is a re

lative pronoun, in the objective case, gov. by "of," and agreeing with its antecedent "nation."

Personal pronoun, 2nd pers. plur., nom. to "are."

are

slow, dull

the highest

soar

to

(e)

Irreg. intrans. verb, pres. tense, indic. mood, 2nd
pers. plur., agreeing with its nom. "ye."
Adjectives of quality, qualifying "nation."
Def. article, particularizing "point" understood.
Adjective of quality, superlative deg., qualifying
"point" understood.

Reg. intrans. verb, infinitive mood, gov. by
"can."
Preposition, governing "that" (=which). "To
which human capacity can soar.”

Commons from Lat. communis, common.

con, together (sedeo, I sit).

natio, a nation (natus, born).

guberno, I govern.

ingenium, genius, intellect.

spiritus, spirit (spiro, I breathe).

consider

nation

governors

ingenious

spirit

acutus, sharp.

invenio, I find.

subtilis, fine, subtle.

discursus, running about (dis, asunder

curro, I run).

punctum, a point (pungo, I prick).

humanus, human (homo, a man).

capax, able to contain (capio, I take). (28) O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces?

Love, hope, and patience, these must be thy graces,
And in thine own heart they must first keep school."

Coleridge.

(a) Write out the meaning of the above passage in your own words.

(6) Analyse the last two lines.

(c) How many words are there in the above passage of other than Saxon origin.

(d) Parse the words in italics.

(29)

"How many thousands of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep!—Sleep, gentle Sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness ?"

(a) Analyse the second sentence in the above.

(b) Parse the words in italics.

Shakspeare.

(30) Explain the following sentence :-"The English is a composite language, based on the Anglo-Saxon."

(31)

"Sometime this world was so steadfast and stable
That man's word was held obligation;

And now it is so false and deceivable

That word and work

Be nothing one; for turnèd up so down

Is all this world, through meed and wilfulness,
That all is lost for lack of steadfastness."

Chaucer.-Ballad sent to King Richard. (a) Give the meaning of the above passage in simple English of the present day.

(6) Explain all the old-fashioned words that occur in the passage.

(c) Point out any words in the above which show that the English language, as Chaucer used it, was not pure Saxon. (d) Parse the words in italics.

(e) Point out and analyse the adverbial sentences in the above.

RECITATION.

Pupil Teachers at the end of the Fourth Year have to "repeat 80 lines of prose." We have selected three passages from good English authors, from which the lines to be repeated may be chosen.

A note inserted in the First Schedule says:"The passages for repetition in prose and poety must be of a secular character, and taken from some standard English writer, approved by her Majesty's Inspector. The meaning and allusions, if well known, well atone for deficiencies of memory."

Of Building.

(Bacon's Essays, No. XLV.)

By FRANCIS BACON, LORD VERULAM.

For sketch of his life, see Pupil Teachers' Course, Year III. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small 5 cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome, but likewise where the air is unequal. As you shall see many fine seats set upon a knap of ground, environed with higher hills round about it; whereby the heat 10 of the sun is pent in, and the wind gathered as in troughs; so as you shall have, and that suddenly, as great diversity of heat and cold as if you dwell in several places. Neither is it ill air

only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and, if you consult with Momus, ill neighbours. I speak not of many more ; 15 want of water, want of wood, shade, and shelter, want of fruitfulness, and mixture of grounds of several natures, want of prospect, want of level grounds, want of places at some near distance for sports of hunting, hawking, and races; too near the sea, too remote; having the commodity of navigable rivers, 20 or the discommodity of their overflowing; too far off from great cities, which may hinder business, or too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear; where a man hath a great living laid together, and where he is scanted; all which, as it is impossible perhaps to find together, so it is 25 good to know them, and think of them, that a man may take as

many as he can; and, if he have several dwellings, that he sort them so, that what he wanteth in the one he may find in the other. Lucullus answered Pompey well, who, when he saw his stately galleries and rooms so large and lightsome in one of his 30 houses, said, "Surely, an excellent place for summer, but how

do you in winter?" Lucullus answered, "Why, do you not think me as wise as some fowls are, that ever change their abode towards the winter?"

To pass from the seat to the house itself, we will do as Cicero 35 doth in the orator's art, who writes books De Oratore, and a book he entitles Orator; whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. We will therefore describe a princely palace, making a brief model thereof; for it is strange to see, now in Europe, such huge buildings as 40 the Vatican and Escurial and some others be, and yet scarce a very fair room in them.

First, therefore, I say, you cannot have a perfect palace, except you have two several sides; a side for the banquet, as is spoken of in the book of Hester, and a side for the household; 45 the one for feasts and triumphs, and the other for dwelling. I understand both these sides to be not only returns, but parts of the front; and to be uniform without, though severally partitioned within; and to be on both sides of a great and stately