Calendar: 1880-1881 Page 647

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 647 Vnwise and wretched men to weete what's good or ill We deeme of death as doome of ill desert But knewe we ooles what it vs bringes until Dye would we dayly once it to expert No daunger then the shepheard can astert XXI ngltel uUterature What means are there of settling the dates of the com- position of Shakspere's plays Explain the following extracts and their possible value in determining or assisting to determine the dates of the plays in which they occur Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores Where Spain Faith saw it not but felt it hot in her breath And yet there has been earls nay which is more pensioners How does your fallow greyhound sir heard say he was outrun on Cotsall Now here is 4three studied ere ye'll thrice wink and how easy it is to put years י to the wT0rd three and study three years' in two words the dancing horse will tell you You are no surer no Than is the coal of fire upon the ice Or hailstone in the sun For Oldcastle died martyr and this is not the man Ji Or may we cram Within this wooden Ο the very casques That did aifright the air at Agincourt Faith here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale think their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation Point out any marks of Shakspere's earlier manner in Richard II