Pertain.-To belong, to appertain. Latin, pertineo: ii. 4, 82. 'With all their honourable points of ignorance Pertaining thereunto.'-King Henry VIII., 1, 3, 27. Progenitors. -Ancestors in a direct line. Latin, progenitus: i. 2, 95. 'And like true subjects, sons of your progenitors.' 1 Henry VI., iv. 1, 166. Proportion.-Due relation, symmetry: ii. 2, 109. 'Why should we in the compass of a pale King Richard II., iii. 4, 41. Provident.-Prudent in preparing for the future, forecasting: ii. 4, 11, 'I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself To a strong mast.'-Twelfth Night, i. 2, 12. Puissance.-Strength, force, power. French, puissance : iii., chorus 21. 'For thereby is England maimed, and fained to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds it up.'-2 Henry VI., iv. 2, 173. Quality. A natural or adventitious property or adjunct. Latin, qualitas; French, qualité : i. 1, 62. The owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment.'-All's Well, iii. 6, 12. Quittance.-Payment, return. French, quitance: ii. 2, 34. Rendering faint quittance.'-2 Henry IV., i. 1, 108. Quotidian.-A fever the paroxysms of which return daily: ii. 1, 124. Rapier. A weapon usually worn with a dagger. To fight with rapier and dagger was esteemed a gallant mode of action. These weapons were sold in London by the girdlers. The Girdlers' Hall is mentioned by Stowe: ii. 1, 60. The weapon was of Spanish origin, and was probably not used in England until the latter end of the sixteenth century. Shakespeare mentions it in another of his English history scenes: 'And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, Requite. To repay, to retaliate: iii. 6, 51. 'I will requite you with as good a thing.'-Tempest, v. 169. Resolve. To free from uncertainty: i. 2, 4. 'Single I'll resolve you.'-Tempest, v. 248. Rivets.-Pins of iron driven through the different pieces of armour to fasten them together: iv., chorus 13. 'I like thy armour well; I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all.' Troilus and Cressida, v. 6, 29. Roping.-Running down and concreting, hanging down like a rope : iii. 5, 23. Rub.-An obstacle, a cross purpose. 'Though conscience checks him, yet those rubs gone o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more.'-Dryden. Safeguard.-To guard, to protect. The same word is used as a verb. To safeguard thine own life.'-King Richard II., i. 2, 35. Semblance.--Appearance, outward show: ii. 2, 117. 'And then another fault in the semblance of a fowl.'-Merry Wives, v. 5, 11. Shales. The name applied to the outer coat of some kinds of fruit. Dr. Johnson considers it only a corruption of shell: iv. 2, 18. Swasher.-A bully, a braggart, one that is all noise and no courage: iii. 2, 30. Swelling.-Growing, increasing: v. 1, 15. 'Propitious Tyber smooth'd his wat'ry way, He roll'd his river back, and pois'd he stood, Task. To impose a certain work to: i. 2, 6. To thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality.'-Tempest, i. 2, 192. Tawny.-A light brown, the colour of the ground: iii. 6, 170. 'The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front.'-Antony and Cleopatra, i. 1, 6. Trim.-Ornamental dress: iv. 3, 115. A thousand, sir, Early though 't be, have on their riveted trim.' Antony and Cleopatra, iv. 2, 22. Vantage.-Superiority, state in which one has better means of action than another: i. 1, 297. 'If they get ground and vantage of the king.' 2 Henry IV., ii. 3, 53, Wait. To attend; used as a phrase of ceremony ii. 2, 110. 'Now good digestion wait on appetite.' Macbeth, iii. 4, 38. Wots.-Knows; of Anglo-Saxon origin; whence weet, to know, of which the preterite was wot, knew. Yearn. To grieve, to vex. Anglo-Saxon, earnan: iv. 3, 26. 'O, how it yearn'd my heart.' King Richard II., v. 5, 76. GENERAL QUESTIONS. (Selected from the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examination Papers.) 1. Describe briefly the action of this play. 2. From what Chronicles did Shakespeare draw his materials for the drama of Henry V.? 3. State what you know of those Chronicles. 4. Explain the following passages, and say where each occurs: (1.) 'Consideration like an angel came, And whipped the offending Adam out of him.' (2.) 'Tis so strange That though the truth of it stands off as gross (3.) 'Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour Unto the weary and all-watched night.' 5. Paraphrase the following passage: No, my fair cousin ; If we are marked to die, we are enough To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men the greater share of honour. Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; I am the most offending soul alive!' 6. We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.' Coleridge suggests 'live' instead of 'die' in the first line: what have you to say in favour of the alteration? 7. Describe the deaths of the Dukes of York and Suffolk. 8. In the conversation between the king in disguise and the three soldiers, there is a question of conscience discussed, concerning a king's responsibility in going to war; state the question and Shakespeare's solution of it. 9. Lord Bacon has said that dramatic poetry is like history made visible, and is an image of actions past as if they were present. And Charles Lamb has said of paintings that by a wise falsification the great masters got at their true conclusions by not showing the actual appearances, that is, all that was to be seen by an indifferent eye, but only what the eye might be supposed to see in the doing or suffering of some portentous action.' Collect from these two passages some definition of Imagination. 10. Exemplify from the play the following grammatical peculiarities: (1) use of double negative; (2) nominative absolute; (3) omitted relative; (4) plural nominative with singular verb; (5) nominative (apparently) singular with plural verb. 11. Explain, giving derivations and context where possible, the wordshavoc, heroical, quittance, tawny, troth, bait, exhale. 12. Show how the words self, to, for, unto, against, while, his, are severally employed in this play in a force or use now wholly or partially obsolete. 13. What sort of character does Shakespeare assign to Henry V.? 14. What is the date of this play? 15. Show (giving one example in each case) that Shakespeare sometimes uses (1.) Double negatives; (2.) Who for whom; (3.) A singular verb with a plural subject; (4.) Words with a different accent to that now given them. 16. Quote the references in this play to the Christian religion and to the Bible. 17. In what sense does Shakespeare use the words: Antic, quotidian, kerns, pertain, foils, perdy, resolve, lief, mettle, tardy-gaited, shales, yearn. 18. In what points does Shakespeare vary in this play from the facts of history, and with what effect? 19. What incidents of the play may be supposed to refer to contemporaneous events? 20. Quote from memory any passage from this play (not consisting of more than twenty lines) which you remember. 21. Quote any short passage from this play you think of especial beauty for description or feeling; pointing to what you consider its beauty. 22. Indicate any passages in the play which Shakespeare seems to have partially imitated from existing works; and mention the names of those works. Quote a few lines of any one of these passages. 23. Point out instances of what we now call bad grammar. 24. Under what circumstances are allusions made in this play to the Salique law-the Roman Brutus--Leviathan-Rouen-Hyperion. 25. In what instances does Shakespeare use the following words: Vantage, shales, condition, semblance, fantastically. Give instances from the play. THE END, BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD AND LONDON. 1 Strongly bound in cloth, price 1s. each. 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