This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...to. 5. Discuss the text in these places: (i) What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity (i. 1. 318). (ii) It is the base though bitter disposition of Beatrice (ii. 1).. (iii) Contempt, farewell and maiden pride, adieu No glory lives behind the back of such (iii. 1. 110). (iv) Out on thee Seeming I will write against it (iv. 1). (v) Grieved I, I had but one? Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame? (iv. 1. 129.) 6. Explain: (i) He set up his bills here in Messina, and challenged Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged him at the birdbolt (i. 1). (ii) My visor is Philemon's roof: within the house is Jove (ii. 1. 100). (iii) I will bring you the length of Prester John's foot (ii. 1). (iv) The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well: but civil count, civil as an orange (ii. 1. 303). (v) We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken up of these men's bills (iii. 3. 190). (vi) B. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho M. For a hawk, a horse, or a husband? B. For the letter that begins them all, H. M. Well, an you be not turned Turk, there's no more sailing by thestar (iii. 4. 53). (vii) The watch heard them talk of one Deformed: they say, he wears a key in his ear and a lock hanging by it (v. 1. 316). 7. Shew by examples the difference between Elizabethan English and the English of the present day in regard to the use of adjectives in-ful, -less, -ive, -ble. 8. Illustrate from Much Ado About Nothing (or other plays of Shakespeare) any peculiar uses of the prepositions of, to, for, from, with, upon. 9. Comment upon the grammar of these passages: (a) She would have made Hercules have turned spit (ii. 1. 260). (b) An he