person, singular number, agreeing with "mercy," according to RULE 4.
_The verb must agree_, &c.

_The_ is a definite article, belonging to "badge," in the singular
number: RULE 2. _The definite article_ the, &c.

_True_ is an adjective in the positive degree, and belongs to the noun
"badge:" RULE 18. _Adjectives belong_, &c.

_Badge_ is a noun com. neuter gender, third person, singular number, and
in the nominative case _after_ "is," and put by apposition with "mercy,"
according to RULE 21. _The verb to be may have the same case after it as
before it_.

_Of_ is a preposition, connecting "badge" and "nobility," and showing
the relation between them.

_Nobility_ is a noun of multitude, mas. and fem. gender, third person,
sing, and in the obj. case, and governed by "of:" RULE 31. _Prepositions
govern the objective case_.

EXERCISES IN PARSING.

Learn to unlearn what you have learned amiss.

What I forfeit for myself is a trifle; that my indiscretions should
reach my posterity, wounds me to the heart.

Lady Jane Gray fell a sacrifice to the wild ambition of the duke of
Northumberland.