Calendar: 1882-1883 Page 641
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638 general literature and science harsh lips now hear all around me such words as common vices envy malice even virtue study justice pity mercy compassion profit commodity colour grace favour acceptance Tharfor maysters soom tyme uses the wand that has childer to lere under thair hand Full of wise saws and modern instances Though thou the waters warp Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not Eun run Orlando carve on every tree The fair the chaste and unexpressive she answer you right painted cloth from whence you have studied your questions Lean but upon rush The cicatrice and capable impressure Thy palm some moment keeps Go to let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech God ild you for your last company Illustrate the tendency in later English to resolve com- pounds into their separate parts Mention dozen Teutonic and dozen Romance suffixes that are in use in English and state the force of each 10 Show the etymological identity of pagan and peasant and mention six other pairs of words similarly related 11 Derive wanton-riding-stalk verb -cathedral-see noun -wind-stream-earth-rudder-wedlock-orchard- bridal-chance-ballot-custom-avaunt-acquaint-couch- curfew-rally 12 Explain these old words and say by what Latin equi- valents they have been superseded gainsaw-againbuy- rimer aft bocst93f- eor hling-leornung-cniht-y eldings- ariste-ayenbite-forespeecli 13 What different words or particles are represented in modern English by the prefix
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