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56
56 SYNTAX
In conformity with the rules of Elizabethan language,
on the other hand, one often gets the meaning of
somebody, and is moreover used for purposes of substantivizing
after the model of one sore sick (Franz, § 216).
I, 12, There stands he like one labouring at a loom . . .
258, ... As one that fain would wipe
The old record out of old things done . . .
IV, 258, As one on earth disfleshed.
The form an one occurs in
1, 20, An one that has a plague-mark on his brow.
[I, 13, He is not and none knoweth of such an one.]
The archaic use of something for somewhat occurs,
though seldom.
o
I, 244, Shamefaced and something paler in the cheek . . .
Cf. 235, Plain and nothing perilous.
On the other hand, the use of somewhat in the sense
of something, which it has long since lost, is to be found
now and then.
I, 261, ... I felt
Somewhat that altered all my sleep . . .
Ill, 303, ... in the eyes
Somewhat that drew men’s own.
The plural other for others occurs in the single
instance of other some, already quoted (page 39).
§ 6. Verbs.
Apart from the use of the subjunctive and other things
already treated in the preceding chapter, there is little of
interest in the syntax of verbs. One thing worth
mentioning is the change of tenses that sometimes occurs in
imitations of Middle-English epics [cf. this, that, above).
I, 251, And in brief while this knight Theophilus
Is waxen full of faith, and witnesseth
Before the king of God and love and death,
For which the king bade hang him presently . . .
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