that starve with nothing. It is no small happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Portia. Good sentences, and well pronounced. Nerissa. They would be better, if well followed. Portia. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er cold decree. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word choose! I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I can not choose one, nor refuse none? Nerissa. Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their death have good inspirations; therefore the lottery that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver, and lead (whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you), will, no doubt, never be chosen by any rightly but one who you shall rightly love. "The Merchant of Venice." SHAKESPEARE. 4. "So George came up, and he said: 'Father, I can not tell a lie; I'', "Who couldn't tell a lie?" "Why, George Washington. He said: 'Father, I can not tell a lie. It was "His father couldn't?" "Why, no; George couldn't." "Oh! George? Oh, yes!" "'It was I cut down your apple-tree; I did "His father did?'' "No, no; it was George said this." "Said he cut his father?" "No, no, no; said he cut down his apple-tree." "George's apple-tree?" 999 "No, no, no; George said: did it with my little hatchet.' 'Father, I can not tell a lie. I And his father said: 'Noble boy, I would rather lose a thousand trees than have you tell a lie.'"' "George did?" "No, his father said that. "Said he'd rather have a thousand apple-trees?'' "No, no, no; said he'd rather lose a thousand apple-trees than "Said he'd rather George would?" "No; said he'd rather he would than have him lie.” 5. Ros. Why, whither shall we go? R. J. BURDETTE. Cel. To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden. Maids as we are, to travel forth so far! Ros. Were it not better, Because that I am more than common tall, A boar-spear in my hand; and-in my heart As many other mannish cowards have That do outface it with their semblances. Cel. What shall I call thee when thou art a man? Ros. I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page; And therefore look you call me Ganymede. But what will you be call'd? Cel. Something that hath a reference to my state: No longer Celia, but Aliena. Ros. But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal The clownish fool out of your father's court? Would he not be a comfort to our travel? Cel. He'll go along o'er the wide world with me; And get our jewels and our wealth together; To hide us from pursuit that will be made "As You Like It," Act I, Scene 3. SHAKESPEARE. FIFTEENTH LESSON PART 1. DRILL 1. Physical Culture. Extend the right arm straight to the side, the palm down, the fingers stretched, while at the same time bending the left arm in a horizontal position, with the hand clenched close to the face. Then reverse. Considerable energy should be put into this exercise. 2. Deep Breathing. Inhale deeply through the nostrils. Expel the breath through the mouth in a full, deep whisper upon the element ho The voice should not be sounded. 4. Articulation. The sound of wh is frequently slurred by careless speakers. The following words should be practised, at first slowly, then with great rapidity: |