Isab. But can you, if you would?

Ang. Look; what I will not, that I can not do. Isab. But might you do't, and do the world no wrong, If so your heart were touched with that remorse, As mine is to him?

Ang. He's sentenced; 'tis too late.

Isab. Too láte? Why, nò; I, that do speak a word,
May call it back again; well believe this,
No ceremony that to the great belongs,

Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Becomes them with one half so good a grace,
As mercy does. If he had been as you,
And you as he, you would have slipped like him;
But he, like you, would not have been so stern.
Ang. Pray you, begone!

Isab. I would to Heaven I had your potency,
And you were Isabella; should it then be thús?
No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,
And what, a prisoner.

Ang. Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words.

Isab. Alas! alas!

Why, all the souls that are, were forfeit once:
And He, that might the 'vantage best have took,
Found out the remedy. How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? Oh, think on that;
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.

Ang. Be you content, fair maid;

It is the law, not I', condemns your brother.
Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,

It should be thus with him; he dies to-morrow.

Isab. To-morrow? (pl.) oh! that's sudden. Spare him! spare him!

Good, good my lord, bethink you :

Who is it that hath died for this offense?

There's many hath committed it.

Ang. The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept; Those many had not dared to do that evil,

If the first man that did the edict infringe,

Had answered for his deed.

Now 'tis awake,

Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet,
Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils,
Or new, or by remissness new-conceived,
And so in progress to be hatched and born,
Are now to have no successive degrees;
But ere they live, to end.

Isab. Yet show some pity.

Ang I show it most of all, when I show justice; For then I pity those I do not know,

Which a dismissed offense would after gall;

And do him right, that, answering one foul wrong,

Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;

Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.

Isab. So you must be the first that gives this sentence;

And he, that suffers: Oh! 'tis excellent

To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.- Merciful Heaven!
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulph'rous bolt
Splittest the unwedgeable and gnarled oak,
Than the soft myrtle: Oh, but man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,

Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven,
As make the angels weep.

We can not weigh our brother with ourself:
Great men may jest with saints,-'tis wit in them;
But, in the less, foul profanation.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which, in the soldier, is flat blasphemy.

Ang. Why do you put these sayings upon me?
Isab. Because authority, though it err like others,

Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,

That skins the vice o' the top: go to your bosom ;
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
That's like my brother's fault; if it confess
A natural guiltiness, such as is his,

Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
Against my brother's life.

Ang. [Aside.] She speaks, and 'tis

Such sense, that my sense breeds with it.

[To her] Fare you well.

Isab. Gentle my lord, turn back.

Ang. I will bethink me; come again to-morrow.

Isab. Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back.

Ang. How! bribe me?

Isab. Ay, with such gifts, that Heaven shall share with you. Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,

Or stones, whose rate is either rich or poor,
As fancy values them; but with true prayers,
That shall be up at Heaven, and enter there,
Ere sun-rise; prayers from preserved souls,
From fasting maids, whose minds are dedicate
To nothing temporal.

Ang. Well, come to-morrow.

Isab. Heaven keep your honor safe!

QUESTIONS.-1. What was Isabella's petition? 2. How was hel petition received? 3. To whom did she refer as an example for Angelo's imitation? 4. When does Angelo say he shows most pity? 5. What gifts does she promise for the pardon of her brother?

What rule for the rising inflection on it, 6th paragraph? What inflection do antithetic terms and clauses require? Rule V. p. 29. Why the falling inflection on law, and rising on I? Note I. p. 29.

1. (°°) HURRAH for our ships! our merchant-ships!
Let's raise for them a song;

That safely glide o'er the foaming tide,
With timbers stout and strong;

That to and fro on the waters go,
And borne on the rushing breeze,
Like birds they fly, 'neath every sky,
From South to Northern seas!

2. HURRAH for our ships! our battle-ships!
Our glory and our boast;

That carry death in their bellowing breath
To invaders of our coast.

In glory and pride, whatever betide,
May they sail around our shore;
But long be the day ere, in battle's fray,
We shall hear their cannons roar.

3. HURRAH for our ships! our stout steam-ships!
That float in strength and grace;

By fire and air their course they bear,
As giants in the race:

That bind the hands of kindred lands
In close and friendly grasp :

God grant no feud by death and blood,
May e'er unloose the clasp !

4. HURRAH for them all, both great and small,
That float our waters free;

May they safely sail in calm or gale,
In home or foreign sea:

HURRAH again for our merchant-men,

HURRAH for our men-of-war!

Ring out the shout for our steam-ships stout, (f.) HURRAH for them all! (f.) HURRAH!

QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of our merchant-ships? 2. What, of our men-of-war? 3. What, of our steam-ships?

With what modulation of voice should this piece be read? In what respect do the 1st, 3d, 5th, and 7th lines of each stanza, differ from the rest?

LESSON CXIV.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

MIRACLES, Supernatural events.

DRAMA TIST, writer of plays.

RANT ING, extravagant.
REAL IZ ED, made real.
U BQ UI TY, omnipresence.
CON CEPTION, idea.
GRAV I TY, seriousness.
PRETEN'SIONS, claims; pretences.
INITIALS, first letters of a word.

REEK ING, steaming.

IG NITE', kindle; set on fire.
HOR I ZONTAL, on a level.
A NAL O GOUS, bearing some
resemblance.

DROME DA RIES, species of
camels.

RENDEZ VOUS, (ren' de voo) place
of meeting.

1. PAN O RAMA, (pan + orama,) from two Greek words, together signifying a whole or complete view, is applied to a large, circular picture, presenting, from a central point, a view of objects in every

direction, represented on the interior surface of a cylindrical wall or rotunda.

2. MICRO COSM, (micro + cosm,) from two Greek words, which, united, mean a little world.

3. TEL' ES COPE, (tele + scope,) from two Greek words, together meaning far-seeing, or seeing at a distance, is the name of an optical instrument for viewing distant objects.

4. AN TIPO DES, (anti + podes,) from two Greek words, which together mean feet opposite, is a term applied to those who live on opposite sides of the globe, and whose feet are, therefore, directly opposite.

THE NEWSPAPER.

WILLIAM ADAMS.

1. Nothing which is familiar to us, strikes us as wonderful. Were miracles repeated every day, we should come to glance at them very heedlessly. We get used to rainbows, and stars, and sunsets, and the flashing fires of the north. Surprise wears away in time from the greatest discoveries and inventions; and we send thought through the air, and ride in carriages without horses, and in ships against the wind, just as carelessly and composedly as though such things had always been.

2. Fletcher, the old dramatist, was counted as half crazy when he put into the mouth of Arbaces this ranting promise:

"He shall have chariots easier than air,
Which I have invented; and thyself,

That art the messenger, shalt ride before him,
On a horse cut out of an entire diamond,
That shall be made to go with golden wheels,
I know not how yet."

3. The wonder of the promise has long ago been realized; and, if the poetry of the dream should yet come to pass, and locomotives cut from solid diamonds, and car-wheels wrought from gold, should become common, we should ride after them with as little surprise, as now we talk beneath the azure and the gold of God's glorious firmament. Who can