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Ursula : [Aside to Hero] The pleasant’st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the…
Ursula : [Aside to Hero] The pleasant’st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
So angle we for Beatrice, who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
Fear you not my part of the dialogue.
Hero : [Aside to Ursula] Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
Of the false-sweet bait that we lay for it.
[Approaching Beatrice’s hiding place]
No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful,
I know her spirits are as coy and wild,
As haggards of the rock.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING — Shakespeare
Question 1
Choose two of the passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the questions that follow:
(i)[1.0]
What instructions have been given by Hero to Ursula before these lines?
(ii)[2.0]
How is Margaret involved by Hero in the “treacherous bait” laid out for Beatrice?
(iii)[1.5]
Explain the line:
“I know her spirits are as coy and wild, As haggards of the rock.”
(iv)[2.0]
What are the changes which have come upon Benedick, a little while ago?
(v)[2.0]
How does this conversation bring out the essential themes of the play?
(vi)[1.5]
Give the meanings of the following words as they are used in the context of the passage:
bait; couched; coverture
Answer
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From ISC 2017 English Literature Paper 1, question 1(b).