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VERBS —ADVERBS
47
IV, S9, He sware to bring his brother Ganhardine
To sight of that strange Isenlt; and thereon
Forth soon to Cornwall are these brethren gone.
Further, double negation is sometimes met with and
is chiefly used for rhetorical reasons.
II, 165, But blood nor tears ye love not, you . . .
265, Not with the sick sweet lips of slaves that sing,
Praise thou no priest or king.
The following case is doubtful, as the context gives
no. clue to its right understanding.
III, 317, . . . the altar-stone
Where none may worship not of all that live . . .
§ 7. In the use of auxiliaries Swinburne’s language
shows several peculiarities. I have already mentioned his
use of do in negative and interrogative clauses (p. 34):
this use, or rather this non-use, of do is of course only
characteristic by reason of its frequency.
The most important divergencies from general usage
occur in the case of shall and will. Just as in older
English, shall has a much wider use in Swinburne’s language
than is now to be found.
In accordance with normal modern English it occurs
in cases denoting prophecy or prohibition (besides in cases
where it denotes pure future).
I, 71, All ye as a wind shall go by, as a fire ye shall pass and
be past.
Ye are Gods, and behold, ye shall die . . .
In older English shall was used in order to express
a personal conviction about what is going to happen
(promise or expectation).
IV, 171, ... so shall he
Again be gracious lord to me . . .
186, Great worship shall ye win, said he,
And look that ye do knightly now . . .
186, 111 if ye hear not shall ye speed.
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