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Amidst this cool translucent rill,

That trickles down the glade,

Here bathe your plumes, here drink your fill,
And revel in the shade.

Stanza 1. 1. Here you may freely (nullo cohibente, abl. abs.) flit through the shade.-2. Here weave, each for itself, your mossy nests (lares). Observe the use of "quisque" with a plural verb.-3, 4. Here wandering at will (quò libet) beguile the day with song; here pleasing rest is to be sought by you at night.

Stanza II. 1-4. Where the rill invites you, pellucid with cold (egelidus) wave, [the rill] Which trickling with slender stream (fons) wanders-through the fields: Here slake your thirst, and, your feathers being bathed in the spray (adspergo), Go, whither it pleases you to go, through the shady grove,-Or, Go through the shady grove, a joyous band.

Observe in Stanza I. "lares" poetically used of a bird's nest.

EXERCISE III. (same continued).

Hither the vocal thrush repairs,
Secure the linnet sings;

The gold-finch dreads no slimy snares
To clog her painted wings.

Sad Philomel! ah, quit thy haunt

Yon distant woods among :

And round my friendly grotto chaunt

Thy sweetly plaintive song.

Stanza 1. 1, 2. The thrush with vocal throat (abl. quality) frequents these retreats, and the linnet in safety (tutus) gives forth a careless (securus) strain.-3, 4. Nor does the gold-finch dread for herself slimy snares, lest her golden wing (Poet. Orn. a) should feel sudden delays.

Stanza II. 1,2. Quit, sad Philomel, thy distant retreats, where the remote wood conceals thy nest.-3, 4. Here mayst thou weep, here amid friendly bowers (sedes) [thou mayst] utter plaintive strains with tuneful (argutus) voice.

EXERCISE IV.

No fish stir in our heaving net;
The sky is dark and the night is wet;
And we must ply the lusty oar,
For the tide is ebbing from the shore:
And sad are they whose faggots burn,
So kindly stored for our return.
Our boat is small, and the tempest raves;
And nought is heard but the lashing waves,
And the sullen roar of the angry sea,
And the wild winds piping drearily :
Yet sea and tempest rise in vain;
We'll bless our blazing hearths again.
Push bravely, mates; our guiding star
Now from its turret streameth far:
And now along the nearing strand
See swiftly move yon flaming brand:
Before the midnight hour is past,

We'll quaff our bowl and mock the blast.

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1,2. The fish leap not amid our (nobis, Aids v.) heaving nets; black night shrouds the sky with rainy clouds.-3, 4. 'Tis time now, my comrades, to bend to your lusty oars, for the wave is leaving the shore (Poet. Orn. a) with ebbing flood (refluum salum).—5, 6. And with anxious hand a crowd kindly-thrifty (non male parcus (Aids II.), or officiosus), for their husbands about to return is piling (repono) wood upon (super) the fire. Italicised words in line 6.-7, 8. Small indeed is our boat; the awful tempest rages: and the voice falls without-being-heard (irritus) amid the lashing (allisus) waters.-9, 10. And the threatening roars (Poet. Orn. a) of the angry sea swell (glisco); and the piping (stridulus) blasts which rave with dreary sound.-11, 12. But in vain rages [the anger] of the sea, in vain the anger of the storm: the holy flame of our hearth will welcome (excipio) us on our return (redux). Poet. Orn. (. 2.-13, 14. Push on (eja agite), my comrades; lo! far and wide, like (instar, with gen.) a star, the light gleams from

the turret top, and guides our way.-15, 16. And now as-weapproach (part.), o'er the shore (pl.) We see torches move-backwards-and-forwards (ire redire1) hither and thither (huc illuc) with rapid course (line 15).—17, 18. Ere (prius-quàm) the late hour of mid-night shall have flown, it shall be ours (fas erit) to quaff our cups (Aids VIII. a) in mockery of the winds (irrisis Notis, abl. abs.).

Observe' Notus' used for any wind.

EXERCISE V. (Sir W. Scott).

O listen, listen, ladies gay;
No haughty feat of arms I tell.
Soft is the note, and sad the lay

That mourns the fate of Rosabelle.

Moor, moor, the barge, ye gallant crew:
And, gentle lady, deign to stay;
Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch,

Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day.

Stanza I. 1. Listen (ore faveo) all of you, O ladies, a merry company (genialis turba).2 Note that "turba" and similar words, are often used with an epithet in apposition. Thus, for "pale ghosts," you might put "umbræ, pallida turba," &c.-2. No haughty feats nor arms of a hero do I sing.—3, 4. Only (Aids 11. non nisi) with gently-sounding lay and sad plaint, do we mourn thy fate, O Laodamia (Aids v1.).

Stanza II. 1, 2. Hither come (agite), moor the barge (carina), my brave comrades: and thou, O maiden, stay (siste viam) awhile, I pray.—3, 4. Repeat the "siste viam," (Poet. Orn. §) : And mayst thou linger to-day 'neath our castle (turris). And (ne-ve) trust not thy sails to the stormy firth.

Observe that Laodamia is used as a long name, and therefore somewhat parallel to Rosabelle. The list at the end will furnish you with names of suitable quantities: but a certain amount of taste must be exercised in the selection. Observe also, "carina," "turris," the part put for the whole; as "rota" often ="currus," &c., &c. Observe also how the difficulty of "Ravensheuch" is surmounted.

1 Ovid, Fasti, i. 126.

2 Cf. Ovid, Her. xii. 10, 30.

EXERCISE VI. (same continued).

The blackening wave is edged with white;
To inch and rock the sea-mews fly:
The fishers have heard the water-sprite,
Whose screams forebode that death is nigh.

Last night the gifted Seer did view

A wet shroud swathed round ladye gay: Then stay thee, Fair, in Ravensheuch; Why cross the gloomy firth to-day?

Stanza 1. 1, 2. The milk-white foam now edges (prætexo) the blackening waves: the sea-coots now seek the shores and wellknown (notus) rocks. Or, No isle, no rock (silex) is untenantedby (vaco) the sea-fowl.-3, 4. The fisher (Poet. Orn. a) has heard the shrieks of the sea (adj.) monster, shrieks that-foreboded (vaticinor, part.) a wrecked vessel.

Stanza II. 1, 2. And on yester eve the gifted (præsagus) Seer saw a lady's limbs shrouded (pres. inf. pass. tego) with a wet robe.-" a lady's," femineus.-3. Linger, fair maiden, 'neath our castle." linger," Aids vII. 5.-4. Why dost thou assay-tocross (tento viam) o'er the black firths to-day?

Observe in Stanza I. 4 the repetition of the word "shrieks." See Poet. Orn. Č. 2.

EXERCISE VII. (same continued).

'Tis not because Lord Lindesay's heir
To-night at Roslin leads the ball,
But that my ladye-mother there
Sits lonely in her castle-hall.

'Tis not because the ring they ride,
And Lindesay at the ring rides well,
But that my sire the wine will chide,
If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle.

Stanza I. 1, 2. We go, she said, not because (non quòd, with subj.) the heir of the neighbouring chieftain (princeps) leads the merry dances in Roslin Castle (arx Roslinea).—3, 4. But alas! my mother alone in the lonely hall of the fortress, my mother sprung from noble ancestry (non humilis sanguis) is sitting.

Stanza II. 1, 2. What if my love (noster amor), where the ring (line 2) is grazed (stringo) with many a lance, shall have stood forth a conspicuous (conspicio, part. in -dus) horseman ?— 3, 4. My father, I ween (Aids VII. 7), will chide (insector) the grape with reproaches, unless his daughter's hand shall give (Poet. Orn. 8) the full cups.

Observe in Stanza I. 3, 4 the repetition of words, and the expansion of the expression "ladye-mother." Also observe how the future-perfect is used for the future, and "plena dare"= implere. Cf. Aids 1. a.

EXERCISE VIII. (same continued).
O'er Roslin all that dreary night

A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam:
'Twas broader than the watch-fire light,
And redder than the bright moɔn-beam.

It glared on Roslin's castled rock,

It ruddied all the copse-wood glen:
'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak,

And seen from cavern'd Hawthorn-den.

Stanza I. 1, 2. Above Roslin heights (arces Roslineæ), through the dreary hours (tempora) of night, the flame shines (Poet. Orn. k) with unwonted (non suetus) light.-3, 4. With less broad light fires blaze for watchers (part.), nor is the moon red with so crimson a glare (nitor).

Stanza II. 1, 2. The rocks of Roslin (adj.) and the castled (turritus) crags gleam: the ruddy glare goes through the glen, through the whole grove.—3, 4. The distant oak-groves see the opposite (adversus) flames; the hollow (concavus) rocks shine with the opposite fires.

Observe in Stanza I. 3, 4, slightly changing the English.

how the sense is expressed by Also how the English is broken

up to express "copse-wood glen." Also how the Historic present makes the description more graphic.

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