OBS. 16.—­Of the verb SEE.  This verb, whenever it governs the infinitive without to, governs also an objective noun or pronoun; as, “See me do it.”—­“I saw him do it.”—­Murray.  Whenever it is intransitive, the following infinitive must be governed by to; as, “I will see to have it done.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 98; Greenleaf’s, 38.  “How could he see to do them?”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 43.  In the following text, see is transitive, and governs the infinitive; but the two verbs are put so far apart, that it requires some skill in the reader to make their relation apparent:  “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,” &c.—­Matt., xxiv, 15.  An other scripturist uses the participle, and says—­“standing where it ought not,” &c.—­Mark, xiii, 14.  The Greek word is the same in both; it is a participle, agreeing with the noun for abomination.  Sometimes the preposition to seems to be admitted on purpose to protract the expression:  as,

   “Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,
    And with her breath she did perfume the air.”—­Shak.

OBS 17.—­A few other verbs, besides the eight which are mentioned in the foregoing rule and remarks, sometimes have the infinitive after them without to.  W. Allen teaches, that, “The sign to is generally omitted,” not only after these eight, but also after eight others; namely, “find, have, help, mark, observe, perceive, watch, and the old preterit gan, for began; and sometimes after behold and know.”—­Elements of Gram., p. 167.  Perhaps he may have found some instances of the omission of the preposition after all these, but in my opinion his rule gives a very unwarrantable extension to this “irregularity,” as Murray calls it.  The usage belongs only to particular verbs, and to them not in all their applications.  Other verbs of the same import do not in general admit the same idiom.  But, by a license for the most part peculiar to the poets, the preposition to is occasionally omitted, especially after verbs equivalent to those which exclude it; as, “And force them sit.”—­Cowper’s Task, p. 46.  That is, “And make them sit.”  According to Churchill, “To use ought or cause in this manner, is a Scotticism:  [as,] ’Won’t you cause them remove the hares?’—­’You ought not walk.’  SHAK.”—­New Gram., p. 317.  The verbs, behold, view, observe, mark, watch, and spy, are only other words for see; as, “There might you behold one joy crown an other.”—­Shak.  “There I sat, viewing the silver stream glide silently towards the tempestuous sea.”—­Walton.  “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.”—­Luke, x, 18.