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supposed dead. Prospero sent the gentle spirit Ariel to bring the young man before himself and Miranda.

Miranda, knowing no man except her father, had supposed that all men must wear grave faces and long beards like his. At first she thought the handsome youth a spirit, but was delighted to find him a mortal. Ferdinand, in his turn, imagined this place an enchanted island, and Miranda its goddess, but was also glad to learn that she was only a gentle maiden.

Prospero set the young prince at many hard tasks, but Miranda's presence cheered him at his work. One day when they thought Prospero in the cave studying his books of magic, Ferdinand told her that he would some day be King of Naples, and proud to take her there to make her his queen. Miranda replied that she would indeed be glad to go with him.

Prospero, who was really standing close by, though invisible, was well pleased with this, and at once appeared to the young people to tell them that he approved of what Ferdinand had said, and would give permission for Miranda to be Ferdinand's bride.

Prospero then sent Ariel to summon his brother and the king. When Antonio recognized the brother he had so wrongfully banished, he implored his forgiveness, and the old king also expressed his sorrow for the aid he had long ago given to the wicked plan against Prospero.

Both Antonio and the king then said that Prospero should have his dukedom back again if he would return with them. The kind Prospero forgave them at once, and said, "I have a gift for you, too, in return for the dukedom."

Then he showed them Ferdinand, whom they had thought dead, as he sat by the lovely Miranda. Nothing could exceed the joy of the meeting of the father and son, each of whom had thought the other drowned.

"O," cried Miranda, "what noble creatures these men are. It must surely be a brave world that has such people in it."

"Who is this maiden?" said the king to his son. "She seems to me a goddess."

"No," said Ferdinand, "she is a mortal. She is Prospero's own fair daughter, and she is to be my queen," and the king, also, was rejoiced.

Prospero now told the travelers that their ship and men were safe in the harbor, and that he and his daughter would sail homeward with them all, the next day.

Before Prospero left the island, he freed from service the little sprite, Ariel, who was glad to have no more work to do for men, and to have time to live merrily for himself, singing his pretty songs.

Prospero then buried deep in the earth his magic books and wand, for he wanted them no more. And now, wafted on by happy gales, that Ariel watched as his last service, there was nothing left for Prospero's happiness but to revisit his native land, take possession of his dukedom, and see his daughter made Prince Ferdinand's wife.

Definitions. — Magic, enchantment. Misshapen, deformed. Mortal, a human being. Endurance, power to do or bear. Invisible, not to be seen. Implored, begged. Couch, to hide. Sprite, a spirit, a fairy. Select, for spelling, the hardest five words of this lesson.

Where are Naples and Mil'an? In what other story have you read of a noble revenge like Prospero's ?

Read, if accessible, the whole story of The Tempest, in "Tales from Shakespeare," by Charles and Mary Lamb, or from Shakespeare's plays. To be memorized:

"Where the bee sucks, there suck I;

In a cowslip's bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry;

On the bat's back I do fly.

Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”

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62. FAIRY BITS.

Articulation. - his acorn; thousand | different; burnished |

bright.

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman.

Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs,
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
The traces, of the smallest spider's web;

The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams;
Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film;
Her wagoner, a small gray-coated gnat;
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut;

And in this state she gallops night by night.

-From "Romeo and Juliet." - Shakespeare.

He put his acorn helmet on,

It was plumed with the silk of the thistle - down.
The corselet-plate that guarded his breast

Was once the wild bee's golden vest.

His cloak, of a thousand different dyes,

Was formed of the wings of butterflies.

His shield was the shell of a ladybug queen,

With studs of gold on a ground of green.

And the quivering lance which he burnished bright,
Was the sting of a wasp he had slain in fight.

- From "The Culprit Fay."—J. R. Drake.

Definitions. Alderman, a town or city officer below the mayor. Helmet, a covering for the head. Corselet-plate, part of armor to guard the breast. Shield, piece of armor worn on the arm. Plumed, decorated with feathers. Quivering, trembling.

Spell: gnat; quivering; different; dyes; thistle; guarded; wagoner.

Read, if accessible, "Kilmeny."-James Hogg. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci."-John Keats. "The Sleeping Beauty." - Tennyson.

DRILL IN QUICK MOVEMENT.

And see! she stirs !

She starts, she moves, she seems to feel
The thrill of life along her keel.

STORIES ABOUT GREAT AUTHORS.

63. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.

Articulation. — while | he | believes; his heroes; first | island; asked questions; quaint | old | times; dies | in | peace.

About the time that Shakespeare was writing plays in England, Cervantes, of Spain, was writing the wonderful book, Don Quixote, of which you will often hear.

At that time, which you know was not very long after the Crusades, many Spaniards, as well as others, had their minds so full of stories of war and adventures that they wished to think of nothing else. They did not care to work in the fields and shops, but wanted to ride about, idly boasting and fighting.

Cervantes was sorry to see that the old knightly spirit of really seeking to do good was forgotten in makebelieve, so he made up his mind to write a book showing how foolish the people had grown. Everybody in Spain. read the book and laughed over it, and it became a proverb that Cervantes laughed Spain's chivalry away.

Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes's story, is a half crazy knight who believes the most foolish books of chivalry to be true. He decides that he will be a knight and go out into the world in search of adventures.

He patches up a suit of rusty armor, and makes a helmet of pasteboard, which he wears until he takes, instead, a wash-basin seized from a traveling barber, declaring it to be an enchanted helmet.

As every true knight must have a lady to fight for, he chooses a girl, whom he has never seen, from the next town. He gives her the fine new name of Dulcinea, and, after the manner of knights of whom he has read, he tries to make every one acknowledge that his lady is the most graceful, and beautiful, and gentle, in the world.

As every knight must have a squire, or servant, Don Quixote finds a very dull and greedy countryman, whom he coaxes to go with him, promising to make this squire the governor of the first island they shall conquer.

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Finally, the knight and squire set forth on their

adventures; Don Quixote on his bony old steed, Rozinante, and Sancho Panza in the rear on a little donkey. Don Quixote's imagination sees enemies everywhere. He charges upon wind-mills, saying that they are giants. He attacks a flock of sheep, saying that they are soldiers under enchantment. He sets free a band of real prisoners on their way to jail, saying that they are good men being ill-treated.

After a time a duke, just for a joke, gives Sancho a town to govern, but Sancho gets tired of being watched, and asked questions, and half starved by the court doctor, whose business it is to say what the governor shall eat, and after ten days he runs away.

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