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Par. 506-509.] ARCHAISMS.

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(3) "I am content, so (i.e. " so that," "provided
that," Par. 460) thou wilt have it so."
(4) "And into strange vagaries flew,
As (if) they would dance."-lb. vi. 615.
506 More rarely the Subjunctive is used with Conjunctions of time:(5) "Ere thou go."
(6) " Ridotta sips and dances till she see." - POPE.
507 The old Interrogative (without " do ") is used for
the modern lengthy form. This is both archaic and
terse: -
" Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade?"
" Breathes there a man with soul so dead? "
508 "Him," " them," are used for " himself," " themselves." This again is terse as well as archaic: -
"The poor contents him with the care of heaven."POPE.
509 The old use of the Interrogative, or semi-Interrogative Pronoun, where the moderns use the Relative and Antecedent:
" W/o builds a church to God, and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name." -
POPE.
This use, being (III.) terse, is a favorite use
with Pope (though his style is by no means archaic)
and is extended to sentences that cannot be resolved