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FAMILY STRIFE

HOMAGE TO CERVANTES, A SPANISH UNIVERSAL GENIUS ON HIS 400th ANNIVERSARY

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA

At a certain village in La Mancha, of which I cannot remember the name, there lived not long ago one of those old-fashioned gentlemen who are never without a lance upon a rack, an old target, a lean horse, and a greyhound.

This gentleman, Don Quixote, by sleeping little and reading much lost his reason. He thought it convenient  and necessary, to turn knight- errant and roam through the whole world armed cap-a-pee, and mounted on his steed in quest of adventures.

 He needed a squire,  earnestly solicited one of his neighbors, Sancho Pança,  poor in purse and poor in brains to accompany him. He convinced him with many fair promises, at last the poor silly clown decided to go with him.

As for Sancho Pança , he rode on his ass like a patriarch, with his canvas knapsack, or wallet, and his leathern bottle, with the desire to see himself governor of the promised island.

Excerpts from DON QUIXOTE

SHAKESPEARE’S ANNIVERSARY HOMAGE

SONNET

Shall I compare thee (you) to a Summer’s day?

You are more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

And summer’s lease has all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometimes declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed;

But your eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair you owest (ow);

Nor shall Death brag you wandere’st (wander) in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest (grow);

So long as men can breethe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

Song

Diphthong [ ei ]

Can be represented by the following graphemes:

a         plate

ea       break

ei        eight

ey       they   

ai        train

ay       tray

ao       gaol

au       gauge

e         beret   

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