EXERCISES ON THE FALLING INFLECTION. RULE I. Calling, shouting, exclamation, energetic command: 1. Up drawbridge, groom! What, warder, hò! Let the portcullis fall! 2. Liberty! freedom! Tyranny is dead! Run hencè! proclàim, cry it about the streets. 3. Follow your spirit; and upon this charge, Cry-God for Harry!* England! and St. George! 4. Rejoice! you men of Angiers, ring your bells: King John, your king and England's, doth approach,- Open your gates, and give the victors way! 5. Arm, arm!† it is, it is the cannon's opening roar! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, 8. On them, hussars! in thunder on them wheel! 9. To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse! 10. Then let the trumpet sound The tucket-sonance, and the note to mount. Indignant or reproachful address: 1. Thou slàve, thou wrètch, thou coward, Thou little vàliant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! The examples not accented in type, are meant to be marked by the learner. †The inflection on the repeated word, is on a lower note than the first; the first has a more moderate fall; and the pause between the exclamatory words, is very slight, as the tone is that of agitation, hurry, and alarm. 2. 1. Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight -But oh! What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop, thou cruel, Challenge and defiance: -Who says this? 2. Pale, trembling coward, there I throw my gage,By that and all the rights of knighthood else, Will I make good against thee, arm to arm, What I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise. 3. Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest, Swearing, adjuration, imprecation: 1. Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot, 2. Seven, by these hilts, or I'm a villain else. 3. 5. By the elements, He is mine or I am his. 4. You know that you are Brutus that speak this, Spare him: he our love hath shar'd :- 6. I conjure you by that which you profèss, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me: Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown Though castles topple on their warders' heads; Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure Of nature's germins tumble all together, 7. Ruin seize thee, rùthless king! Confùsion on thy banners wait! 8. Accursed be the faggots that blaze at his feet, Where his heart shall be thrown, ere it ceases to beat! 9. -Beshrew thy very heart! I did not think to be so sad to-night, As this hath made me. 10. Perish the man whose mind is backward now! 11. And when I mount, alive may I not light, If I be a traitor or unjustly fight! 12. -Heaven bear witness; And if I have a conscience, let it sink me, Accusation: 1. Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true: That Mowbray hath receiv'd eight thousand nobles, In name of lendings for your highness' sòldiers; Fetch from false Mowbray their chief spring and head. 2. And thou, sly hypocrite! who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty, who more than thou Once fawn'd and cring'd, and servilely ador'd Assertion, declaration, affirmation, assurance: 1. As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true. 2. Yès, Athenians, I repeat it, you yourselves are the contrivers of your own ruin. 3. I tell you though you, though all the world, though an angel from heaven, should declare the truth of it, I could not believe it. 4. When I behold those manly feelings darkened by ignorance, and inflamed by prejudice, and blinded by bigotry, I will not hesitate to assert, that no monarch ever came to the throne of these realms, in such a spirit of direct, and predetermined, and predeclared hostility to the opinions and wishes of the people. 5. And by the honourable tomb he swears, -- That stands upon thy royal grandsire's bones, 6. Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, 1. 2. Threatening and warning: Upon the next trèe shalt thou hang alive -But, sirrah, henceforth Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer: Send me your prisoners with the speediest means, 3. Return to thy dwelling, all, lonely return; For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood, And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing 4. And if you crown him, let me prophesy- Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd Denial, contradiction, refusal: 1. Thou dost belìe him, Percy, thou dost belìe him; He never did encounter with Glendower. 2. Cassius. I am a soldier, I, Older in practice, abler than yourself Brutus. Go tò: you're not, Cassius. Bru. I say you are not. 3. No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man, Nor no man's lord: I have no name, no title,— No, not that name was given me at the font,But 'tis usurped. 4. -I'll keep them all; -he shall not have a Scot of them: No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not. |