Calendar: 1866-1867 Page 492

494 WARNEFORD SCHOLARSHIPS VI -Corimllt &orace abtcr Ό1 iHat'stw £e Erprru la itt O"&oatt Ea turn gtibnimm Emilia alotti Translate into French As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation he keeps them in very good order and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself for if by chance he has been surprised into short nap at sermon upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him and if he sees anybody else nodding either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them Several other of the old knight's particularities break out upon these occasions Sometimes he will be lengthening out verse in the singing Psalms half minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion he pronounces Amen three or four times to the same prayer and sometimes stands up when everybody else is upon his knees to count the congregation or see if any of his tenants are missing This authority of the knight though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life has very good effect upon the parish who are not polite enough to see anything ridiculous in his behaviour besides that the general good sense and worthiness of his character make his friends observe these little singularities as foils that rather set off than blemish his good qualities Addison Translate into English the two following extracts From Corneille's Horace Rome 1'unique objet de mon ressentiment Rome qui vient ton bras d'immoler mon amant Rome qui t'a vu naitre et que ton cceur adore Rome enfin que je hais parce qu'elle t'honore Puissent tous ses voisins ensemble conjuris Saper ses fondements encor mal assures Et si ce n'est assez de toute l'ltalie Que l'Orient contre elle l'Occident 8'allie Que cent peuples unis des bouts de l'univers