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If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.

_Mar._ May we do so?
You know it is the feast of Lupercal.

_Flav._ It is no matter; let no images
Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about, 70
And drive away the vulgar from the streets;
So do you too, where you perceive them thick.
These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
Who else would soar above the view of men, 75
And keep us all in servile fearfulness.

[_Exeunt]_

--_Shakespeare_

In what Stress do Flavius and Marullus speak when
questioning the citizens? Why?

What Stress does the first citizen use?

How does the mental attitude of the second citizen
influence his Stress and Inflection? (Introduction, pp.
21, 22, and 30.) Where does he change his Stress? For
what reason?

WHEREFORE REJOICE? Point out the various examples of
Climax in this speech, and show how the voice indicates
them. (Introduction, p. 31.)

Account for the Inflection on the various questions.
(Introduction, pp. 18 and 19.)

SEE WHE'R THEIR BASEST METAL, ETC. Note the change in
tension and energy. What change in Pitch and Force is
the natural result? (Introduction, pp. 25 and 26.)

* * * * *

SIR PETER AND LADY TEAZLE

From "The School for Scandal"

_Sir Peter._--Lady Teazle, Lady Teazle, I'll not bear it!

_Lady Teazle._--Sir Peter, Sir Peter, you may bear it or not, as you
please; but I ought to have my own way in everything, and, what's
more, I will, too. What though I was educated in the country, I know
very well that women of fashion in London are accountable to nobody
after they are married.

_Sir Peter._--Very well, ma'am, very well; so a husband is to have no
influence, no authority?

_Lady Teazle._--Authority! No, to be sure: if you wanted authority
over me, you should have adopted me and not married me: I am sure you
were old enough.

_Sir Peter._--Old enough!--ay, there it is. Well, well, Lady Teazle,
though my life may be made unhappy by your temper, I'll not be ruined
by your extravagance!

_Lady Teazle._--My extravagance! I'm sure I'm not more extravagant
than a woman of fashion ought to be.

_Sir Peter._--No, no, madam, you shall throw away no more sums on such
unmeaning luxury. To spend as much to furnish your dressing room with
flowers in winter as would suffice to turn the