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PRONOUNS
45
IV, 89, . . . and thereon
Forth soon to Cornwall are these brethren gone . . .
1S4, ... those brethren bade King Mark . . .
Sometimes one is omitted where now generally found
with demonstratives.
1, 5, Another woman fashioned like as this.
Relatives. That is sometimes found in the sense of
that which, what:
I, 33, [HeJ slew and spoiled and gat him that he would.
Cf. Franz, § 208.
Interrogatives. The sometimes occurring doubling of
interrogatives has already been mentioned.
Indefinites. Just as this, that sometimes take the
place of the definite article, the indefinite article may be
exchanged for the indefinite pronoun some. This is indeed a
remarkably common feature of Swinburne’s language, and
has an origin even older than Elizabethan literature. Franz,
§ 221: «Gleich any, streift some in seiner Verwendungsart
im Mittelenglischen haufig an die Bedeutung des
unbe-stimmten Artikels und bei Shakespeare finden sich noch
Falle genug, in denen es sich mit diesem fast deckt».
Evidently this indicates that the use was already a vanishing
one in the time of Shakespeare: from this point of view
the number of cases in Swinburne is rather interesting.
I, 211, Like a great fire on some great slip of land . . .
III, 308, Till on some winter’s dawn of some dim year . . .
IV, 29, Till in some depth of deep sweet land or sea . . .
VI, 19, . . . and as some throng
Of quiring wings fills full some lone chill place . . .
The substantivizing of some and any by adding one
is of course the general method of Swinburne’s language,
too; still, there are examples of the omission of one:
VI. 128, For if any there be that hath sight of them . . .
His lips shall straiten . . .
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