aid on the water a spell,--

"If the husband of this gifted well
Shall drink before his wife,
A happy man thenceforth is he,
For he shall be master for life; 40

"But, if the wife should drink of it first,
God help the husband then!"--
The stranger stooped to the well of St. Keyne,
And drank of the water again.

"You drank of the well, I warrant, betimes?" 45
He to the Cornish-man said;
But the Cornish-man smiled as the stranger spake,
And sheepishly shook his head:--

"I hastened, as soon as the wedding was done,
And left my wife in the porch; 50
But i' faith she had been wiser than me,
For she took a bottle to church."

--_Robert Southey_

PREPARATORY.--Select the lines that (_a_) describe the
scene, (_b_) indicate the action, (_c_) give the
dialogue.

Show by recasting this ballad into dramatic form that it
is a miniature drama.

Give examples of Pause springing from (_a_)
Visualization, in ll. 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 17, 19, (_b_)
narrative which interrupts direct discourse, in ll. 21,
29, 33, 45.

Which are the emphatic words in ll. 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 14,
21, 29, 31, 38, 45, 46? Give your reasons and show how
they are made emphatic. (Introduction, p. 30.)

l. 3. What is the Inflection on 'country,' l. 3?
(Introduction, p. 17.)

ll. 37-38. Note the Grouping and Pause. (Introduction,
p. 12.)

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FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY

1 Corinthians xiii

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and
all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all
my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and
have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself
unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no
evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, th