Bottom. Titania. I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas. But I pray you, let none of your people stir me : Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Exeunt fairies. So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist; the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm. O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee! They sleep. IV. OBERON RELEASES TITANIA FROM HER ENCHANTMENT Oberon. Titania. Titania and Bottom asleep. Enter Oberon and Puck. Be as thou wast wont to be; See as thou wast wont to see: Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed power. Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen. My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Oberon. There lies your love. Titania. How came these things to pass? Oberon. Titania. O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! Titania, music call; and strike more dead Than common sleep of all these five the sense. Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep! Puck [to Bottom]. Now, when thou wakest, with thine own fool's eyes peep. Oberon. Puck. A Midsummer-Night's Dream 223 Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me Fairy king, attend, and mark: Oberon. Titania. I do hear the morning lark. Then, my queen, in silence sad, With these mortals on the ground. Exeunt. Memorize either the Fairy's speech to Puck or the Lullaby for Titania. Can you remember a song by Ariel, another fairy, who has a part in Shakespeare's Tempest? orbs, eyes; lob, scamp; anon, soon; newts, lizards; Philomel, nightingale; spinners, spiders; ounce, panther; pard, leopard; mounsieur, sir; neaf, fist; bottle, bundle; sad, serious. 241. WRITTEN LESSON BUILDING SENTENCES Write sentences about the fairies containing: 1. The possessive and the objective case of he. 2. A pronoun of the first person in a prepositional phrase. 3. A transitive verb with a pronoun as direct object. 4. A direct quotation. 5. One noun in the nominative, another in the possessive, and a third in the objective case. 6. A pronoun in the nominative, another in the possessive, and a third in the objective case. 7. An intransitive verb. 8. Three prepositional phrases. 9. A quotation within a quotation (see Lessons 76 and 120). 242. LANGUAGE LESSON THE OBJECTIVE CASE (Continued) We have seen that a noun or pronoun used as the object of a transitive verb is in the objective case. A noun or pronoun in a prepositional phrase is also in the objective case. The teacher put the book on the shelf. Book and shelf are both in the objective case. Why? What is the case of teacher? I bought it for him. What is the case of I? of it? of him? In the following sentences, is the verb transitive or intransitive? Give the case of each noun and pronoun. EXAMPLE: The children chose a pony for a present. The verb chose is transitive. Children is in the nominative case because it is in a prepositional phrase. 1. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water. 2. The young mosquitoes live on the surface of the water. 3. The female mosquito bites us. 4. Some mosquitoes carry the germs of malaria. 5. This kind flies and bites only at night. 6. The Department of Agriculture prints a bulletin about the mosquito. 7. You should remove all stagnant water in tin cans. 8. She bought a book for me. 9. I read it carefully. 10. Shall I give it to him or to his brother? dollar. there are two objects of the verb gave, dollar, and John. Dollar is the direct object, and tells what James gave. John tells to whom James gave a dollar, and is called the indirect object. In the following sentences select the direct object, the indirect object, and the object of a preposition. 1. The people gave the soldiers a royal welcome. 2. Please give us a ride. 3. Give us this day our daily bread. 4. Robert of Lincoln gathers his little ones seeds. 5. Send me a box of candy. 6. You told him a good story. 7. Can you find us some violets in the woods? 8. Will you open the door for me? Q 243. ORAL LESSON IN MANY WORLDS Most of your worlds are speak, or read or write. door to many wonderful In this world of ours there are many worlds. Your dog has a very different world from your own. closed for the dog because he cannot Language is the key that unlocks the realms. In this book, through our study of language, we have unlocked some of these doors and taken a peep into some of these interesting countries. Without speech you could not get much beyond the dog's world. The more you know, the more worlds you may discover and explore. Let us look again at some of these worlds of which we have had a glimpse in this book. First, there was what we may call the everyday world with children at play or at work, doing and saying the same kind of things that you do and say. Then there was the world of plants and animals, in which we tried to learn something of the lives of flowers and trees and birds and beasts. And there was the great world that stretched far beyond the city or farm of everyday life, the world of mountains and prairies, of cities and states, and of many strange peoples and countries. There was the world of history, the world that no longer is, but was; and you have seen something of that, of men and deeds and sayings thousands of years old, and also of great men and deeds of our brief national history. We have had a peep, too, at the world of science, at the wonderful machinery of this universe in which everything from the growth of a bean to the revolution of the stars is so perfectly adjusted and regulated. And there was the world of poetry where language revealed thoughts and feelings in new and beautiful and memorable forms. Books are the aeroplanes that bear us quickly to these wonderful worlds. The study of language buys us tickets for many voyages. |