But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,

Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.

́Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man:

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all,-To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.'

III.-"Animated," or Lively Style.
(Tone smooth, but inclining to high.)
1.- [MORNING.]-Beattie.

"The cottage curs at early pilgrim bark; Crowned with her pail the tripping milkmaid sings;

The whistling ploughman stalks afield; and hark! Down the rough slope the ponderous wagon rings; Through rustling corn the hare astonished springs, Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour; The partridge bursts away on whirring wings; Deep mourns the turtle in sequestered bower, And shrill lark carols clear from her aërial tower."

2.- [MORNING.]—Thomson.

"With quickened step,

Brown Night retires: young Day pours in apace,

And opens all the lawny prospect wide.

The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top,

Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.

Blue, through the dusk, the smoking currents shine;

And from the bladed field the fearful hare

Limps awkward; while along the forest glade

The wild deer trip, and often, turning, gaze

At early passenger. Music awakes
The native voice of undissembled joy;

And thick around the woodland hymns arise.
Roused by the cock, the soon clad shepherd leaves
His mossy cottage where with Peace he dwells;
And from the crowded fold, in order drives
His flock, to taste the verdure of the morn."

3.- [ANIMAL HAPPINESS.]-Paley.

"The atmosphere is not the only scene of animal enjoyment. Plants are covered with insects, greedily sucking their juices, and constantly, as it should seem, in the act of sucking. It cannot be doubted that this is a state of gratification. What else should fix them so closely to the operation and so long? Other species are running about, with an alacrity in their motions, which carries with it every mark of pleasure. Large patches of ground are sometimes half covered with these brisk and sprightly natures.

"If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it, all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess.

IV.- -"Gay," or Brisk, Style.

(Tone, smooth and high.)

1.- [RUSTIC SUPERSTITIONS.]-Milton.

"Then to the spicy nut brown ale,

With stories told of many a feat,

How fairy Mab the junkets eat:
She was pinched and pulled, she said;
And he by friar's lantern led,

Tells how the drudging goblin sweat,
To earn his cream bowl duly set,
When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn,
That ten day-laborers could not end;
Then lies him down, the lubber fiend,

And, stretched out all the chimney's length,
Basks at the fire his hairy strength;
And crop-full, out of doors he flings,
Ere the first cock his matin rings."

(Tone smooth, high, and loud.)

2. [FROM THE ODE ON THE PASSIONS.]-Collins. "But oh! how altered was its sprightlier tone, When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow against her shoulder flung,

Her buskins gemmed with morning dew,

Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call, to Faun and Dryad known.

The oak-crowned Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan boys, were seen

Peeping from forth their alleys green :

Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear,

And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.

"Last came Joy's ecstatic trial: —

He, with viny crown advancing,

First to the lively pipe his hand addressed;
But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol,
Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best.
They would have thought, who heard the strain,
They saw in Tempe's vale her native maids,
Amidst the festal sounding shades

To some unwearied minstrel dancing;
While, as his flying fingers kissed the strings,
Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round ;
Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound;
And he, amid his frolic play,

As if he would the charming air repay,
Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings."

3.-[THE FALL OF LODORE.]-Southey.

"How does the water come down at Lodore?
Receding and speeding,

And shocking and rocking
And darting and parting,
And dripping and skipping,
And whitening and brightening,

And quivering and shivering,

And hitting and splitting,

And rattling and battling,

And running and stunning,

And hurrying and skurrying,
And glittering and frittering,

And gathering and feathering;

And clattering and battering and shattering,

And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing,
And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping,
Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing;
And so never ending but always descending,
Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending."

V.-"Humorous," or Playful, Style.

Exercise.

[In the reading of the following scene, the tone of humor is exemplified in the laughing and bantering utterance in which the audience make their remarks on the absurd attempts at sublimity, solemnity, and pathos, which are made by the clownish amateur actors. These worthies have, it may be recollected, volunteered a play on the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, for the entertainment of the court of Theseus, "duke" of Athens, during a season of festivity.]

(Tone smooth, but in laughing utterance, in the italic passages.) [SCENE FROM THE MIDSUMMER NIght's Dream.]—Shakspeare. "Enter Lion and Moonshine.

"Lion. You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear
The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here,
When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.

Then know, that I, one Snug, the joiner, am,

No lion fell, nor else no lion's dam ;

For if I should as lion come in strife

Into this place, 't were pity of my life.

Theseus. A very gentle beast, and of good conscience.1
Demetrius. The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw.

Lysander. This lion is a very fox for his valor.

Thes. True; and a goose for his discretion.

Dem. Not so, my lord: for his valor cannot carry his discretion; and the fox carries the goose.

1 The remarks which exemplify the mode of utterance mentioned above, are distinguished by italics.

Thes. His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valor; for the goose carries not the fox. It is well: leave it to his discretion; and let us listen to the moon.

Moon. This lantern doth the horned moon present:

'Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.'

Thes. This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man should be put into the lantern. How is it else the man i' the moon?

Dem. He dares not come there for the candle; for, you see, it is already in snuff.

Hippolyta. I am aweary of this moon: would he would change! Thes. It appears, by his small light of discretion, that he is in the wane: but yet, in courtesy, in all reason, we must stay the time. Lys. Proceed, moon.

Moon. 'All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.'

Dem. Why, all these should be in the lantern: for they are in the moon. But silence! here comes Thisbe."

EXERCISES IN "OROTUND" UTTERANCE.

To young persons whose organs are yet pliant, and susceptible of the full effects of cultivation, and to students who are desirous of acquiring a perfect command over the vocal organs, for the purposes of effective public speaking, as well as to persons who wish to attain facility in the strong impassioned expression of vocal music, as exemplified in occasional passages of the oratorio and the opera, the power of orotund utterance, in all its extent, is indispensable as an accomplishment. Capacious and vigorous organs, a high state of health, an energetic will, a deep and quick susceptibility of the inspiration of poetic passion, enable some individuals to become powerful vocalists and speakers, with comparatively little training or express practice. But the vast majority of human beings cannot attain the effective expression of intense emotion, without the aid of systematic culture and persevering application; and, to all classes of students, such assistance is of immense advantage: the more regular and extensive the discipline, the greater is always the result in power of voice.

For these reasons, it will be of the utmost service, as an efficacious mode of training, to repeat, with due frequency, previous to commencing the following exercises, the organic functions of breathing, in its different forms, as before suggested, and the yawning, coughing, crying, and laughing modes of utterance, on the "tonic elements," and on words selected from the "exercises in enunciation."

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