2.  “As oft as I, to kiss the flood, decline;
    So oft his lips ascend, to close with mine.”
        —­Sandys.

3.  “Besides, Minerva, to secure her care,
    Diffus’d around a veil of thicken’d air.”
        —­Pope.

XXVI.  They place the auxiliary verb after its principal, by hyperbaton; as,

1.  “No longer heed the sunbeam bright
    That plays on Carron’s breast he can”
        —­Langhorne.

2. “Follow I must, I cannot go before.”
        —­Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 147.

3.  “The man who suffers, loudly may complain;
    And rage he may, but he shall rage in vain.”
        —­Pope.

XXVII.  Before verbs, they sometimes arbitrarily employ or omit prefixes:  as, bide, or abide; dim, or bedim; gird, or begird; lure, or allure; move, or emove; reave, or bereave; vails, or avails; vanish, or evanish; wail, or bewail; weep, or beweep; wilder, or bewilder:—­

1.  “All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide
    In heav’n, or earth, or under earth in hell.”
        —­Milton, P. L., B. iii, l. 321.

2.  “Of a horse, ware the heels; of a bull-dog, the jaws;
    Of a bear, the embrace; of a lion, the paws.”
        —­Churchills Cram., p. 215.

XXVIII.  Some few verbs they abbreviate:  as list, for listen; ope, for open; hark, for hearken; dark, for darken; threat, for threaten; sharp, for sharpen.

XXIX.  They employ several verbs that are not used in prose, or are used but rarely; as, appal, astound, brook, cower, doff, ken, wend, ween, trow.

XXX.  They sometimes imitate a Greek construction of the infinitive; as,

1.  “Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew
    Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.”
        —­Milton.

2.  “For not, to have been dipp’d in Lethe lake,
    Could save the son of Thetis from to die.”
        —­Spenser.

XXXI.  They employ the PARTICIPLES more frequently than prose writers, and in a construction somewhat peculiar; often intensive by accumulation:  as,

1.  “He came, and, standing in the midst, explain’d
    The peace rejected, but the truce obtain’d.”
        —­Pope.

2.  “As a poor miserable captive thrall
    Comes to the place where he before had sat
    Among the prime in splendor, now depos’d,
    Ejected, emptied, gaz’d, unpitied, shunn’d,
    A spectacle of ruin or of scorn.”
        —­Milton, P. R., B. i, l. 411.