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persons, or events ; (b) the means or method you would take to 

 distinguish with more or less definiteness among them ; (c) their 

 peculiar effect upon certain animals (such as dogs, cats, &c.). 



2. Compare the various pleasures derived by man from the 

 senses of seeing, hearing, and smelling. How can the sense of 

 smelling be cultivated ? What are the benefits of sweet scents ? 



FOREST TREES 

 I. CHAUCER'S 



WITH that my hand in his he took anon, 



From which I comfort caught, and went in fast; 



But Lord ! I was so glad and well-begone ! 

 For all around, where'er mine eyes I cast, 



Were trees so clad in leaves that long should last, 

 Each in his kind, of colour fresh and green 

 As emerald, that joy it was to seen : 



The builder oak, and eke the hardy ash ; 

 The pillar elin, the coffin for caraigne; 

 10 The boxtree piper; holm, for a whip-lash; 



The sailing fir ; the cypress, death to 'plain ; 

 The shooter yew ; for shafts, the aspen plain ; 

 The peaceful olive, and the drunken vine ; 

 The victor palm ; the laurel, to divine. 



CHAUCER : The Parliament of Fowls, 

 (slightly modernized). 



NOTES 



[The poem was written, not later than 1382, in anticipation 

 of the marriage of young King Richard II with Anne of 

 Bohemia. It is an allegory of St. Valentine's Day.} 



LINE 1. The poet is led in his dream into a walled park. 

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