adverse circumstances? 18. Pronounce the following: extraordinary; calculations; sustenance. =Phrases= literal and metaphorical, 210, 2 dangerous moment, 211, 18 ship’s chronometer, 211, 28 lucrative one, 212, 10 tolerably correct, 214, 26 hoist the signal, 214, 35 curious inconsistency, 217, 15 a block chafes, 219, 31 frightful breach, 222, 2 inner vortex, 224, 2 tow-rope, 224, 29 frugal manner, 226, 10 circumstances appertaining, 226, 33 great fortitude, 229, 10 raging in imprecations, 229, 13 past mustering, 232, 28 to wear ship, 233, 33 exhausting effects, 235, 12 tossing abreast, 236, 6 sobbing lamentation, 239, 1 went maundering, 240, 28 desolate seas, 243, 19 instantly echoed, 246, 25 entreating me to lay-to, 247, 2 combat their despondency, 249, 33 perilous task, 253, 21 sprung her foretopmast, 254, 16 unremitting attention, 255, 7 traveling trim, 255, 18 TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE [Illustration] AS YOU LIKE IT CHARLES AND MARY LAMB During the time that France was divided into provinces (or dukedoms as they were called) there reigned in one of these provinces an usurper, who had deposed and banished his elder brother, the lawful duke. The duke, who was thus driven from his dominions, retired with a few faithful followers to the forest of Arden; and here the good duke lived with his loving friends, who had put themselves into a voluntary exile for his sake, while their land and revenues enriched the false usurper; and custom soon made the life of careless ease they led here more sweet to them than the pomp and uneasy splendor of a courtier’s life. Here they lived like the old Robin Hood of England, and to this forest many noble youths daily resorted from the court, and did fleet the time carelessly, as they did who lived in the golden age. In the summer they lay along under the fine shade of the large forest trees, marking the playful sports of the wild deer; and so fond were they of these poor dappled fools, who seemed to be the native inhabitants of the forest, that it grieved them to be forced to kill them to supply themselves with venison for their food. When the cold winds of winter made the duke feel the change of his adverse fortune, he would endure it patiently, and say, “These chilling winds which blow upon my body are true counselors; they do not flatter, but represent truly to me my condition; and though they bite sharply, their tooth is nothing like so keen as that of unkindness and ingratitude. I find that howsoever men speak against adversity, yet some sweet uses are to be extracted from it; like the jewel, precious for medicine, which is taken from the head of the venomous and despised toad.” In this manner did the patient duke draw a useful moral from everything that he saw; and by the help of this moralizing turn, in that life of his, remote from public haunts, he could find tongues in trees,