“But he, the sev’nth from thee, whom thou beheldst.”
        —­Id., P. L., B. xi, l. 700.

    “Shall build a wondrous ark, as thou beheldst.”
        —­Id., ib., B. xi, l. 819.

    “Thou, who inform’d’st this clay with active fire!”
        —­Savage’s Poems, p. 247.

    “Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck’dst it from me.”
        —­Shak., Coriol., Act iii.

    “This cloth thou dipp’dst in blood of my sweet boy.”
        —­Id., Henry VI, P. i.

    “Great Queen of arms, whose favour Tydeus won;
    As thou defend’st the sire, defend the son.”
        —­Pope, Iliad, B. x, l. 337.

OBS. 16.—­Dr. Lowth, whose popular little Grammar was written in or about 1758, made no scruple to hem up both the poets and the Friends at once, by a criticism which I must needs consider more dogmatical than true; and which, from the suppression of what is least objectionable in it, has become, her hands, the source of still greater errors:  “Thou in the polite, and even in the familiar style, is disused, and the plural you is employed instead of it; we say, you have, not thou hast. Though in this case, we apply you to a single person, yet the verb too must agree with it in the plural number; it must necessarily be, you have, not you hast. You was is an enormous solecism,[245] and yet authors of the first rank have inadvertently fallen into it. * * * On the contrary, the solemn style admits not of you for a single person.  This hath led Mr. Pope into a great impropriety in the beginning of his Messiah:—­

   ’O thou my voice inspire,
    Who touch’d Isaiah’s hallow’d lips with fire!’

The solemnity of the style would not admit of you for thou, in the pronoun; nor the measure of the verse touchedst, or didst touch, in the verb, as it indispensably ought to be, in the one or the other of those two forms; you, who touched, or thou, who touchedst, or didst touch.

   ’Just of thy word, in every thought sincere;
    Who knew no wish, but what the world might hear.’—­Pope.

It ought to be your in the first line, or knewest in the second.  In order to avoid this grammatical inconvenience, the two distinct forms of thou and you, are often used promiscuously by our modern poets, in the same paragraph, and even in the same sentence, very inelegantly and improperly:—­

   ’Now, now, I seize, I clasp thy charms;
    And now you burst, ah cruel! from my arms.’—­Pope.”
        —­Lowth’s English Gram., p. 34.