ood king John."

--_Old Ballad_

PREPARATORY.--Divide this poem into three dramatic
scenes. Who are the actors in each scene?

What is the king's attitude toward the abbot in the
first scene? Toward the supposed abbot in the third
scene? Where does this attitude suddenly change? Show at
what points this changed attitude gradually increases in
strength and where it reaches its climax. Indicate these
changes by means of the voice.

What is the abbot's attitude toward the king in the
first scene? How does it differ from his attitude toward
the shepherd? What is the difference in vocal
expression?

Where does the shepherd's attitude toward the king
change? How does the voice indicate this change?

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THE KEY TO HUMAN HAPPINESS

From "The Mill on the Floss"

1. At last Maggie's eyes glanced down on the books that lay on the
window-shelf, and she half forsook her reverie to turn over listlessly
the leaves of the "Portrait Gallery"; but she soon pushed this aside
to examine the little row of books tied together with, string.
"Beauties of the Spectator", "Rasselas", "Economy of Human Life",
"Gregory's Letters",--she knew the sort of matter that was inside all
these; the "Christian Year"--that seemed to be a hymn-book, and she
laid it down again; but "Thomas a Kempis"--the name had come across
her in her reading, and she felt the satisfaction, which every one
knows, of getting some ideas to attach to a name that strays solitary
in the memory. She took up the little, old, clumsy book with some
curiosity; it had the corners turned down in many places, and some
hand, now for ever quiet, had made at certain passages strong
pen-and-ink marks, long since browned by time. Maggie turned from leaf
to leaf, and read where the quiet hand pointed ... "Know that the love
of thyself doth hurt thee more than anything in the world.... If thou
seekest this or that, and would'st be here or there to enjoy thy own
will and pleasure, thou shalt never be quiet nor free from care; for
in everything somewhat will be wanting, and in every place there will
be some that will cross thee.... Both above and below, which way
soever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and
everywhere of necessity thou must have patience, if thou wilt have
inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.... It is but little thou
sufferest in comparison of them that ha