Calendar: 1873-1874 Page 623

THE SCHOOL 623 pose-prudence-abridge-biscuit-stray-outrage-treason- rear-redeem-pilgrim-ambush 12 How do you account for the double forms 'surface and superficies י palsy and paralysis י 13 What historical facts would you deduce from the following words Pen-ale -Nan-chesier-Scaw-Fell-bishop 14 Explain the following terms as applied to language hy- bridism-analytical and synthetical-root-stem-conjugation -agglutination-a compound-a derivative-a predicative root -an onomatopoeia Earli £ngltei Give brief account of the works ascribed to Robert of Gloucester Robert of Brunne and Laurence Minot In what dialect did they respectively write What writers were their contemporaries By whom was the romance of William and the Werwolf written Give some particulars respecting the dialect and the metre of the poem How would you distinguish Minot's dialect from Robert of Gloucester's and Robert of Brunne's What changes have taken place since the thirteenth cen- tury in the declension of the adjective the personal demonstrative interrogative and relative pronouns Explain by reference to early English the following words and phrases woe worth the day-go your gait-me thought- the tother side-to con lesson-to go hunting-at best- harbour shrew lewd- wist-buxom-pert-bead- quell- starve-chaffer Give the old English words for dream petition patience root-to seize-usury-path-to climb-urbane- grace-time-to cause-man-boy Make any notes you think necessary upon the following passages His moder het Kenedride His mouth his bedes bede He 3al and hupte and drou3 03e and makede grislich here