_Rule_ 2. In repeating the different tenses of verbs, be careful to be
provided with a short English verse, contrived so as to rhyme with the
third person singular, and another to rhyme with the third person
plural. In this way your powers of composition as well as of memory will
be profitably exercised.
_Example._
Second Conjugation. Moneo.
_Sing._ Moneo, mones, monet,
Reid & Co.'s _heavy wet_.
_Plu._ Monemus, monetis, monent,
Beats that from the firmament.
Third Conjugation. Rego.
_Sing._ Rego, regis, regit,
A statesman for office unfit.
_Plu._ Regimus, regitis, re_gunt_,
Is much like a bear in a punt.
_Rule_ 3. Should you be desired to give the English of each person in
the tense which you are repeating, you may (we mean a class of you),
follow a plan adopted with great success and striking effect in that
kind of dramatic representation entitled "A Grand Opera," that of
_singing_ what you have to _say_. Hold up your head, turn out your toes,
clear your voices, and begin. A-hem!
[Plate:
GOING THROUGH THE VERBS.
AUDIO--I HEAR.]
Fourth Conjugation. Audio.
_Trio._
_Sing._ Audio, I hear the Tartar drum!
Audis, Thou hearest the Tartar drum!
Audit, He hears the Tartar drum!--
the Tartar drum! the Tartar drum!
_Chorus._ He hears!
He hears!
He h - - e - - - a - - rs the Tar - tar drum!
_Plu._ Audimus, We hear the Tartar drum, &c.