How cheerfully thou lookest from above

And seemst to laugh atween* thy twinkling light,
As joying in the sight

Of these glad many, which for joy do sing,

That all the woods them answer, and their echo ring!

17. Now cease, ye damsels, your delights forepast;

Enough it is that all the day was yours.

Now day is done and night is nighing fast;
Now bring the bride into the bridal bowers.
The night is come; now soon her disarray,
And in her bed her lay;

Lay her in lilies and in violets,

And silken curtains over her display,
And ordered sheets and arras coverlets.
Behold, how goodly fair my love does lie
In proud humility!

Like unto Maia, whenas Jove her took

In Tempe, lying on the flowery grass

'Twixt sleep and wake, after she weary was

With bathing in the Acidalian brook.

Now it is night, ye damsels may be gone

And leave my love alone,

And leave likewise your former lay to sing.

The woods no more shall answer, nor your echo ring.

19. Let no lamenting cries, nor doleful tears

Be heard all night within, nor yet without.
Ne let false whispers, breeding hidden fears,
Break gentle sleep with misconceived doubt.
Let no deluding dreams, nor dreadful sights
Make sudden sad affrights.

Ne let house fires, nor lightning's helpless harms,
Ne let the ponke nor other evil sprites

Ne let mischievous witches with their charms,

Ne let hob-goblins, names whose sense we see not,

*Atween, between. A, as a prefix, is explained subsequently. See apace, Index. Tween is A. S. twegan, tweonan, twa; Gr. Svw, Lat, duo, two; Ger. zwei-Nighing, approaching. See neighbors, Index.-Arras (so called because first made at Arras in France in the 14th century), tapestry, or hangings for rooms; woven stuffs decorated with a simple pattern.Maia, one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas. She became the mother of Mercury.-Tempe, a most delightful vale in ancient Thessaly.-Acidalian, belonging to Acidalia, a fountain at Orchoměnus, in ancient Boeotia. This fountain was sacred to Venus, and in it the Graces were wont to bathe.-Ponke (an erroneous form of pouke, for puck; Scot, puck; Sw. puke, a nocturnal demon), Puck, Robin Goodfellow, a merry fiend in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream; called also Pug, Friar Rush, etc., in old ballads and legends.-Sprites (Lat. spiritus, breath, spirit; from spiro, to breathe), spirits, ghosts, apparitions.-Hobgoblin (Hob, abbreviated from Robin or Robin Goodfellow; goblin fr. Gr. kóßaλos ; L. Lat. gobelinus, knave; Ger. kobold, knave, evil spirit; Eng. cobalt, the poisonous and troublesome metal), phantom, hob goblin. Mischievous. Acc. 2d syl. "This accentuation is still sometimes heard, though it is obsolescent." Corson.

Fray us * with things that be not.

Let not the screech-owl nor the stork be heard,
Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells;
Nor damned ghosts, called up with mighty spells,
Nor grisly vultures, make us once afeard.

Ne let the unpleasant choir of frogs still croaking
Make us to wish they're choking!

Let none of these their dreary accents sing;

Ne let the woods them answer, nor their echo ring.

20. But let still Silence true night-watches keep,
That sacred Peace may in assurance reign,

And timely Sleep, when it is time to sleep,

May pour his limbs forth on your pleasant plain;
The whiles an hundred little winged Loves,

Like divers-feathered doves,

Shall fly and flutter round about the bed,

And, in the secret dark that none reproves,

Their pretty stealths shall work, and snares shall spread
To filch away sweet snatches of delight,

Concealed through covert night.

Ye sons of Venus, play your sports at will;

For greedy Pleasure, careless of your toys,
Thinks more upon her paradise of joys
Than what ye do, albeit good or ill.

All night therefore, attend your merry play,
For it will soon be day.

Now none doth hinder you, that say or sing;

Ne will the woods now answer, nor your echo ring.

21. Who is the same, which at my window peeps ?
Or whose is that fair face that shines so bright?

Is it not Cynthia, she that never sleeps,

But walks about high heaven all the night?
O fairest goddess, do not thou envy

My love with me to spy!

22. And thou, great Juno, which with awful might

The laws of wedlock still dost patronize;

And the religion of the faith first plight

With sacred rites hast taught to solemnize,

* Fray us (affray, frighten; Fr. effrayer, to scare; Lat. frigus, cold, a cold shudder; Gr. piytov, colder, more awful, more chilling with fear), frighten us.--Afeard (A. S. afæran, færan, to frighten; faran, to impress fear), afraid.-Choking! Is it possible that Spenser ventures to be facetious?-Sons of Venus. Cupids. Simonides makes Eros or Cupido (Love) to have been the son of Venus and Mars.-Albeit (all be it, i. e., be it all, grant that it is all so), although, whether it be.-Cynthia, the same as Phoebe, st. 9.-Juno, wife of Jove.

23. And ye high heavens, the temple of the gods,
In which a thousand torches flaming bright
Do burn, that to us wretched earthly clods
In dreadful darkness lend desired light;
And all ye powers which in the same remain,
More than we men can feign;

Pour out your blessing on us plenteously,

And happy influence upon us rain,

That we may raise a large posterity,

Which from the earth, which they may long possess

With lasting happiness,

Up to your haughty palaces may mount;
And for the guerdon of their glorious merit,

May heavenly tabernacles there inherit,

Of blessed saints for to increase the count.

So let us rest, sweet love, in hope of this,

And cease till then our timely joys to sing;
The woods no more us answer, nor our echo ring.

Song! made in lieu of many ornaments,

With which my love should duly have been deckt,

Which cutting off through hasty accidents,

Ye would not stay your due time to expect,

But promised both to recompense;

Be unto her a goodly ornament,

And for short time an endless monument!

*Called art of, art called by.-Hebe (Gr. Hẞn, youth), Hebe, goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter. Clods (A. S. clud, rock, stone; Ger, klosz, clod, clump), lumps of earth or turf; dolts, gross or stupid fellows.-Influence (Lat. influere, to flow upon). This word carries us back to astrology. It was believed that the stars shed forth a mysterious and mighty power, which flowed down upon men and controlled their dispositions and destinies. One born under the influence of Jupiter (i. e., when this planet was high in heaven), would be jovial; born under that of Mercury, he would be mercurial; under Saturn, saturnine, etc.-Haughty (Lat. altus, high; alere, to nourish, feed; Fr. haut, high; formed fr. O. Fr. hault, halt), high, loftyGuerdon (O. Fr. guerdon, guerredon; Ger. wider, again, and Lat. donum, gift; or fr. O. Ger. widarlon, recompense; A. S. widherlean), reward.-Tabernacles (Lat. tabula, a board, plank; Lat. taberna, a hut, a shed, a slightly built habitation), tents, temples, mansions.

Write a brief life of Spenser; an essay on his office-seeking; on his moral character; on his poetic genius; on the literary activity of the Elizabethan age; on the Faerie Queene; on this marriage hymn; on alliteration in poetry; on the changes in the English language between the times of Chaucer and Spenser; on the Spenserian stanza; on Spenser's connection with Sidney and Raleigh. Write some account of Robin Hood. (See Scott's Ivanhoe; Prof. F. J. Child's Introduction to 5th vol. Eng. and Scot. Ballads; Ritson's Robin Hood, a Collection, etc.). Write an essay on Astrology; one on the long-prevalent superstitions in regard to fairies, hobgoblins, etc.; one on the characters from heathen mythology named in this poem. 6

ORTHOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS.

For orthographic analysis, which treats of the representatives or signs of sounds, the student must understand and give the classifications of letters, the power or sound of each letter or combination of letters, and the equivalent letters (i. e., those used to express the same sound). He should also apply the principles of syllabication.

These particulars are discussed with tolerable fulness in works on etymology, grammars, spelling-books, and the preliminary treatises in the large dictionaries. The teacher should see to it that the student forms the habit of original investigation by industriously consulting books of reference. The mode of orthographic analysis may be illustrated by the following.

EXAMPLE.

"Song made in lieu of many ornaments."

S is a surd sibilant consonant, representing a phonetic element (No. 31, p. 60). Its normal force is a hissing sound, as in siss. It has sometimes the sound of z, as in reason; of sh, as in sure; of zh, as in pleasure; and is sometimes silent, as in island. Its form, somewhat modified, is found in the Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and Latin. (But see Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, revised edition.) It has, for an equivalent, c, before e, i, and y. 0 is a vowel, representing a phonetic element (No. 7, p. 59). Its normal force is the sound of o in go. It has also the sound of o in not, of u in won, oo in two. Its form is found in the Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and Latin. It has for its equivalents, in the sound here represented, au, aw, awe, al, o, oa, ou; as in Paul, law, awe, talk, or, broad, fought. N is a nasal liquid consonant, representing, when alone, a phonetic element (No. 38, p. 61). It is silent when preceded in the same syllable by m or 7. Its form is found in the Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and, as a capital letter, in the Greek. It has no equivalent. Here it is taken to form in combination with g a single sound. G is a palatal mute consonant, representing, when alone, and as its normal force, a sonant phonetic element (No. 28, p. 60). It often has, also, before e, i, or y, the sound of j, as in gem, and is silent before m or n in the same syllable. Its exact form is from the Latin, and is not found in the Anglo-Saxon nor the Greek. (See G and C in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.) The combination, ng, is a compound sign, representing a single nasal-guttural consonant element (No. 36, p. 61). As such it has no equivalent.

Let the student go through the whole line in like manner.

Occasional exercises of this kind should be assigned by the teacher. See Blair's Latin Pronunciation; Max Müller's Science of Language, Second Series; Marsh's Lectures on the English Language; the Latin Grammars of Madvig, Zumpt, Allen and Greenough; Fowler's large English Grammar, etc. Write an essay on the original sounds and shapes of the vowels; one on those of the mute consonants; one on the other letters.