5. Analyse the following sentence:

There is a flower, the lesser celandine,

That shrinks like many more from cold and rain;
And the first moment that the sun may shine,
Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again!

6. Write down all the words you know connected with the following English words: Late; while; meet1; lose2; body; fall; land; lie; heart; hard; hang; wind.

7. Write down in columns all the derivatives you know from the following Latin words: Scando, I climb (root scand, stem scans), compound with ad and de; fero, I carry, compound with con, de, re, and inter; patria, one's country; volo, I wish (root vol, noun voluntas, will); jungo, I join (root jung, stem junct), compound with ad, con, and dis.

8. Write sentences which contain the following words: Straight and strait; suite and sweet; tare and tear.

9. Write sentences which contain the following phrases: To get the upper hand; to hold the reins; to wield the power.

1. Attend all ye who list to hear our noble England's

praise;

I tell of the thrice-famous deeds she wrought in

ancient days,

When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain

The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain.

2. It was about the lovely close of a warm summer day,

There came a gallant merchant-ship full sail to Plymouth Bay;

Her crew hath seen Castile's black fleet beyond Aurigny's1 isle,

At earliest twilight, on the waves lie heaving many a

mile;

At sunrise she escaped their van, by God's especial

grace;

And the tall Pinta,2 till the noon, had held her close

in chase.

3. Forthwith a guard at every gun was placed along the

wall;

The beacon blazed upon the roof of Edgecumbe's3 lofty

hall;

Many a light fishing-bark put out to pry along the

coast;

And with loose rein and bloody spur rode inland many a post.

With his white hair unbonneted the stout old sheriff

comes;

Behind him march the halberdiers, before him sound

the drums;

His yeomen, round the market-cross, make clear an ample space,

For there behoves him to set up the standard of Her Grace.

4. And haughtily the trumpets peal, and gaily dance the bells,

As slow upon the labouring wind the royal blazon swells.

Look how the lion of the sea lifts up his ancient

crown,

And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down.

So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field,

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Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Cæsar's eagle shield:

So glared he when at Agincourt in wrath he turned

to bay,

And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay.

Ho! strike the flag-staff deep, Sir Knight; ho! scatter flowers, fair maids:

Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades;

Thou sun, shine on her joyously—ye breezes, waft her

wide;

Our glorious 'SEMPER EADEM'-the banner of our pride.

5. The freshening breeze of eve unfurled that banner's massive fold,

The parting gleam of sunshine kissed that haughty scroll of gold;

Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple

sea

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again shall be !

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From Eddystone to Berwick7 bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay,9

That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the

day;

For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread;

High on Saint Michael's Mount 10 it shone-it shone on Beachy Head.11

6. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire,

Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire;

The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's 12 glittering

waves,

The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's 13 sunless caves.

O'er Longleat's 14 towers, o'er Cranbourne's 15 oaks, the fiery herald flew ;

He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, 16 the rangers of Beaulieu.17

Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town,

And ere the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down 18;

The sentinel on Whitehall-gate 19 looked forth into the night,

And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill,20 the streak of blood-red light.

7. Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke,

And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.

At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires;

At once the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling

spires;

From all the batteries of the Tower pealed loud the voice of fear;

And all the thousand masts of Thames sent back a louder cheer:

And from the furthest wards was heard the rush of

hurrying feet,

And the broad streams of pikes and flags rushed down each roaring street:

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din,

As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in :

And eastward straight, from wild Blackheath,21 the warlike errand went,

And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent.

8. Southward, from Surrey's pleasant hills flew those bright couriers forth;

High on bleak Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north;

And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still,

All night from tower to tower they sprang; they sprang from hill to hill :

Till the proud Peak 23 unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's 24 rocky dales,

Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales;