I am content, so he will let me have Two things provided more, that for this favour, The other, that he do record a gift Here in the court, of all he dies possessed, Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter. Duke. He shall do this: or else I do recant The pardon that I late pronounced here. Por. Art thou contented, Jew; what dost thou say? Shy. I am content. Por. Clerk, draw a deed of gift. Shy. I pray you give me leave to go from hence: I am not well; send the deed after me, And I will sign it. Duke. Get thee gone, but do it. SHAKESPEARE. Remorse.—Shakespeare generally uses this word as here to signify pity, compassion. Nor I will not.-Instances of the double negative are quite common in Shakespeare. To make no noise.- Strict grammar would require "to make any noise." Pythagoras. A celebrated Greek philosopher, a native of Samos. He believed in the transmigration of souls, or as Shakespeare puts it : 66 That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men." Wordsworth has the following beautiful allusion to this doctrine :- "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." Alien. One residing in a state, but not naturalised. AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. 1. ALL hail thou noble land, O stretch thy mighty hand, O'er the vast Atlantic wave to our shore; 2. The genius of our clime, From his pine-embattled steep, Then let the world combine- 3. Though ages long have passed O'er untravelled seas to roam, Yet lives the blood of England in our veins ! And shall we not proclaim That blood of honest fame, 4. While the language free and bold In which our Milton told How the vault of heaven rung, When Satan, blasted, fell with his host; While this, with reverence meet, From rock to rock repeat 5. While the manners, while the arts, Our joint communion breaking with the sun : WASHINGTON ALLSTON (American). Phabus.-The sun; the allusion is to the vast extent of the possessions of Great Britain. Tritons.-Sea monsters, variously described; though they are always conceived as having the human figure in the upper part of their bodies, and that of a fish in the lower part. The chief characteristic of Tritons in ancient poetry, as well as in works of art, is a trumpet made out of a shell (Greek concha, hence the word conchs in the extract), which the Tritons blow at the command of Neptune, to soothe the restless waves of the sea. The Bard of Avon.—Shakespeare, who was born at Stratford-on-Avon. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. [HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, the greatest American poet, born 27th February, 1807, still lives in a green old age to enjoy the honour and respect of the whole English-speaking race.] 1. "As unto the bow the cord is, Though she bends him, she obeys him, 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Thus the youthful Hiawatha "Wed a maiden of your people," Thus dissuading spake Nokomis, Gravely then said old Nokomis : Smiling answered Hiawatha: 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 66 Still dissuading said Nokomis : may open!" Laughing answered Hiawatha : That old feuds might be forgotten, Thus departed Hiawatha To the land of the Dacotahs, To the land of handsome women; On the outskirts of the forest, At the door of his wigwam |