The arrangement is similar to Scale 2. The range of voice, however, is both higher and lower than in that scale. The voice should have had ample practice on the preceding exercises before this one is attempted.

Titania. Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song;

Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;
Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds;

Some, war with rear-mice for their leathern wings,

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To make my small elves coats; and some, keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wonders At our quaint spirits: Sing me now asleep;

Then to your offices, and let me rest.

-Midsummer Night's Dream.

Practice this scale many times before attempting any force; giving the whole attention to acquiring a "true" ascent and descent.

EXERCISE FOR PRACTICE OF DISTINCT UTTERANCE.

The following passage embraces the quality of intensity of expression which requires a certain degree of the "Aspirate.'

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Calaban. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome fen,

Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye,

And blister you all o'er!

Prospero. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have

cramps,

Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins
Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd

As thick as honey-combs, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made them.

-The Tempest.

Give Calaban a deep, guttural voice, sounding each consonant very forcibly. When Prospero speaks, his words call for the aspirate combined with great stress on the consonant, to give his speech the degree of earnestness and energy its sentiments call for.

In their proper place the "Symbols" of the different "Emotions" will be given and described. In passages appropriated simply for " Cultivation of Voice," but little mention will be made of these symbols.

CHAPTER II.

TIME.

NE of the most important means for interpreting an author correctly is varied "time" in utterance. The longer or shorter duration of time occupied in the rendering of sentences, expresses the mental valuation of such sentences; and the relative changes in "time," the relative importance of the various passages. The relationship of groups of clauses, also, is indicated "by time." The train of literal thought which is interrupted by a metaphor, is depicted as such by a difference in the "time" between literal and metaphorical, symbolizing the natural "break" in the thought.

That you are describing a miracle, the accomplishment of prophecy, the marvellous, etc., etc., is indicated by the particular "time" in which you read. A parable is a figurative illustration in which the direct or literal meaning is not the real or principal one; it is designed to point an important truth with greater vividness; then, as the illustration is not so important as that which it illustrates as a whole, it is read faster than that which it images, and the "important truth” which it points—that is, the teaching-is read in slower time than the main text.