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306 ENGLISH LANGUAGE. [Par. 565, 566.

a great influx of Latin words, (2) an introduction
of the periodic structure, involving a freer use of
Conjunctions and of the Subjunctive Mood.
565 Sixth Period, or " Period of Settlement,"
A.D. 1600 to the Present Time.- This was a period
of reaction from the "Period of License." The use
of " shall" and " will," variable toward the end of
the " Period of License," was defined in the seventeenth century. Many old licenses (e.g. the use of
"of" after (what are now) Participles) were discarded as vulgarisms, or as unjustifiable irregularities.' The periodic structure was simplified by the
easy vigor of Dryden and the incisive French style.
566 Several superfluous words of Latin importation were
rejected. M3any Elizabethan usages, theoretically
accurate, had become practically inconvenient. For
example, " so" being by derivation connected with
" as " (" al-so," "alse," " als "), had been, in Elizabethan times, freely interchanged with " as;"
"which," being the original co-relative to "such,"
had been used where we use " as," e.g. " such which"
for "such as; " " as " retaining its original force of
"in which way," had been used as the natural
sequel to " so " (" so... as," where we use "so that")
-all theoretically legitimate usages, and based on
ancient derivations: but, as the derivations were
1 Pope even discards the use of mine and thine before a vowel,
preferring "m ny eye," "' thy eye." In revising a Concordance to
Pope. I have noticed thine twice, mine (as an Adjective before a
Noun) never.