From the plains, from the woodlands, and groves,
What strains of wild melody flow!
How the nightingales warble their loves
From thickets of roses that blow!
And when her bright form shall appear,
Each bird shall harmoniously join
In a concert so soft and so clear,
As she may not choose to resign.

2. Translate into Latin prose—

In Cicero's extant correspondence we seem to be present at the shifting scenes of the drama, as the plot unfolds itself which involves the destinies of Rome. We hear the groans of the expiring Republic, which had been mortally wounded during the long civil wars of Marius and Sulla, and was fast sinking under the flood of social and political corruption which is sure to follow in the train of civil wars. At one time we watch with eager impatience the arrival of a courier at Tusculum with a letter from Atticus telling his friend the news of the day; and in Cicero's reply we read all the fluctuations of hope and fear which agitated him during the momentous crisis of his country's fate. At another we contemplate the great orator in the seclusion of his villa, as a plain country gentleman, busying himself with improvements on his estate, or amusing himself with pictures and statues and the various objects which interest a man of refined and cultivated taste. At another we see him at Rome, sick, weary, and disgusted with the din of strife, mistrusting everybody where no one seems worthy of trust, and harping ever on the vanity of ambition and the worthlessness of popular applause.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

PART I.

The Board of Examiners.

FOR HONOUR CANDIDATES ONLY.

1. What can we glean from Piers the Plowman as to the condition of the Church, Agriculture, and Society in England?

2. Explain fully the following words:

Ancres, auncere, balkes, caples, culorum, engreyned, ewages, hals, noumpere, palmer, ragman, vernicle, Goliardeys, Symonye.

3. Explain

Sith charite hath be chapman.

'Gode gris and gees-gowe dyne, gowe!' Purfiled with pelure.

For-thi I rede yow, renkes-that riche ben on this erthe,

Uppon trust of yowre tresoure-triennales to
have,

Be ye neuere the balder-to breke the ten hestes;
And namelich, ye maistres-mayres and iugges,
That han the welthe of this worlde-and for
wyse men ben holden,

To purchase yow pardoun-and the popis bulles.

4. What is the meaning of each of the following names: The Tabard, Cristofre, a Maunciple, Southwerke, Femenye, Theseus, Chauntecleer, daun Burnel?

5. Explain briefly

A not-heed hadde he.

Wastel breed.

Hir nose tretys.

Gauded al with grene.

His overest courtepy.

His drogges and his letuaries.

He was al hir reed.

Now draweth cut er that we ferrer twinne.

That foughten breme.

So moot I thee.

So wlatsom and abhominable.

I ne can not bulte it to the bren.

6. Paraphrase and explain

(1) Al was fee simple to him in effect,
His purchasing mighte nat been infect.
(2) Nat oonly lyk the loveres maladye
Of Hereos, but rather lyk manye
Engendred of humour malencolyk,
Biforen, in his celle fantastyk.

(3) Armed compleint, outhees, and fiers outrage.
The careyne in the bush, with throte y-corve:
A thousand slayn, and nat of qualm y-storve.
(4) Men may the olde at-renue, and noght at-rede.

7. Give a short account of Milton's Hymn on the Nativity, and quote the stanza you admire the

most.

8. Point out the contrast between L'Allegro and Il Penseroso.

9. Prove from the poems that Milton was a Latinist.

10. Examine the two following statements with respect to Richard II.:

(1) There is no humour in the play.

(2) The women's parts are few and unimportant.

11. Explain Macaulay's allusions in the following:Arminius, Custalorum, Justiza Mayor, Kit-cat, Sir Francis Wronghead.

12. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,
The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

What alteration was made with respect to these proper names?

And what

may

be inferred from the alteration?

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

PART II.

The Board of Examiners.

FOR HONOUR CANDIDATES ONLY.

1. What is the substance of Goethe's theory of Hamlet? Criticise it.

2. Explain the following passages from Hamlet:(1) Hyperion to a satyr.

(2) I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. (3) Falsely borne in hand.

3. Compare briefly the women in King Lear.

4. What indications of Bacon's character do we gather from the Essays?

5. Given Shakspeare and Milton as the greatest names in English literature, whom will you place as next and next? Give reasons for your

selection.

6. What was Carlyle's opinion of Leo X., Knox, Voltaire, Boswell, Napoleon's treatment of Palm ?