M. A. DEGREE EXAMINATION.

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MONDAY, 14TH FEB., 10 A,M. TO 1 P.M.

ENGLISH.

JOHN BRADSHAW, M.A.

The Faerie Queene, Bk. I.—Midsummer Night's Dream-Richard II— King Lear-The Alchemist-The Fall of Sejanus.

I. (a) State briefly the design of the First Book of the Faerie Queene.

(b)

Describe the procession of the Six Counsellors of Lucifera; giving their names, the beasts on which they rode, and the characteristic epithet Spenser applies to each.

(c) In this category of the Seven Deadly Sins how is Pride represented?

(d) What is the origin of the allegory of the Seven Beadmen of the Hospital?

(c) What is the moral of Orgoglio and Ignaro ?

II. Explain by paraphrase :

(1) He wept that cause of weeping none he had.

(2) His living like saw never living eye.

(3) "Mishaps are maistered by advice discreet,

And Counsel mitigates the greatest smart;

Found never help, who never would his hurts impart."
"Ah but," quoth she, "great grief will not be told,

And can more easily be thought then said."
"Right so," quoth he; "but he, that never would
Could never; will to might gives greatest aid."

"But grief," quoth she," does greater grow displayed,

If then it finds not help, and breeds despair."

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Despair breeds not," quoth he, "where faith is staid." "No faith is fast," quoth she, "but flesh does pair."

"Flesh may impair," quoth he, " but reason can repair."

(1) There was that great proud king of Babylon,
That would compel all nations to adore

And him as only God to call upon.

And after him old Ninus.

(2) In his hand a Jacob's Staff.

(3) His dwelling is, low in a valley green,
Under the foot of Rauran mossy hoar.

(4) Like as if it had been many an angel's voice
Singing before the eternal majesty,

In their trinal triplicities on high.

IV. Comment on the following grammatical forms :-eyne ; Pegasus his kind; ywrought; hempen ; him list; strook; and piercen.

V. Give the meanings of whalley; wood (adj.) foreby ; hest, clean (adv.); train; clouts; uneath; and fry (noun).

VI. Explain by paraphrase: —

(1) The winds, piping to us in vain,

As in revenge, have sucked up from the sea
Contagious fogs, which falling in the land,
Have every pelting river made so proud,
That they have overborne their continents
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain,
The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
Hath rotted ere his youth obtained his beard.

(2) I am denied to sue my livery here.

(3) He that hath suffered this disordered spring
Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf.

(4) Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear.

(5) Equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.

(6) Oft 'tis seen

Our means secure us, and our mere defects

Prove our commodities.

VII. Explain the expressions :-(a) Every one according to his cue. (b) Everything is left at six and seven. (c) Razed out of my impreses. (d) Important tears. (e) I found him pight to do it.

VIII. In what sense does Shakespeare use :—worm; shrewd ; virtuous; abridgements; security; convey; incontinent; practice ; suggestion; o'erwatched.

IX. Explain:

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(1.) May Don Provost ride afeasting long

(2.)

In his old velvet jerkin, and stained scarfes,
Ere we contribute a new crewell garter

To his most worsted worship.

As that bow

Is most in hand, whose owner best doth know
T'affect his aims, so let that statesman hope
Most use, most price, can hit his prince's scope.
(3) We must keep him to stalk with.

(4) Larded with ease. 5 All's one to him.
(6) I'll be bound. (7) Mercury sublimate.
(8) You talk like a foolish mauther.

The rest entire

Shone with a glossy scurf, undoubted sign
That in his womb was hid metallic ore,
The work of sulphur. Paradise Lost.-I. 674.
A passage in the Alchemist explains the above?

MONDAY, 14TH FEB., 2 TO 5 P.M.
ENGLISH.

JOHN BRADSHAW, M.A.

Paradise Lost, x-xii. -Absalom and Achitophel,-and Hudibras, Part I. I. (a) Give the substance of the Archangel's reply to Adam's ques

tion:

If our Deliverer up to Heaven

Must re-ascend, what will betide the few

His faithful left among the unfaithful herd,
The enemies of truth? Who then shall guide

His people, who defend ?-xii, 479-483.

(b) There are several traces of the Author's political and reli

gious faith in the last three books of Paradise Lost, Cite some instances of each.

II. Give instances (two under each head) of Latinisms in Paradise Lost,-in the syntax, idiom, and use of words.

III. (a) Paraphrase the following passages, so as to bring out all the meaning.

(b) Give the construction of the italicised words.

(c) Comment on the punctuation, stating what other is found in each case :

(1)

(2)

Oft they assayed

Hunger and thirst constraining; drugged as oft,
With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws,

With soot and cinder filled; so oft they fell

Into the same illusion, not as man,

Whom they triumphed, ouce lapsed. Thus were they plagued

And worn with famine, long and ceaseless hiss ;

Till their lost shape, permitted, they resumed, x, 567–574

Besides

Mine own that bide upon me, all from me
Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound-
On me, as on their natural centre, light
Heavy, though in their place.--x. 737–741.
(3) In those days might only shall be admired,
And valour and heroic virtue called;

To overcome in battle, and subdue
Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite
Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch
Of human glory, and for glory done

Of triumph, to be styled great conquerors.-xi. 689–695.

IV. Briefly point out any grammatical peculiarity in each of the following passages :—

(1) Attendance none shall need, nor train, where none

Are to behold the judgment, but the judged.

(2) Thou hast achieved our liberty, confined