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56 SEMATOLOGY
analogy may be found with the old expression: to
queen it.
(b). Similar to these cases are those where a change of
construction is used in order to strengthen the impression,
as, archaically, in
I, 155, What bud was the shell of a blossom
That all men may smell to and pluck?
or in IV, 177, ... Steed on steed encountering . . .
VI, 272, . . . and hovers
As birds that impend on the sea . . .
Evidently this procedure is the opposite of the one
just treated. — As to curiosities in the use of prepositions,
see Syntax (page 48).
(c). To the same intention as is displayed by the last
two groups of cases, we must trace the divergencies from
modern English in the use of prefixes and compound verbs.
Several different irregularities occur.
In the first place, verbs are provided with unnecessary
prefixes, or are followed by unnecessary particles.
I, 167, Who appraise thee, adore, and abstain,
O daughter of death and Priapus,
Our Lady of Pain.
II, 21, Rome [shall] arise up whom thou slevvest . . .
III, 85, What bids the lids of thy sleep dispart?
1S6, Assail not thee, approved of ages
The towering crown of time.
The pleonastic use of a following particle is common,
but chiefly occurs in the first series of <• Poems and Ballads».
I, 24, Lo 1 have sinned and have spat out at God . . .
32, Ate . . . That breeds up death . . .
58, I would . . .
Strain out thy soul with pangs too soft to kill . . .
SO, Love turned himself and would not enter in . . .
1S9, Your beauty is not over fair
Now in mine eyes, who am grown up wise . . .
II, 294, King, it may be thy soul shall find out grace . . .
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