we also is singular for the same reason, as often as it is substituted for I; else the authority of innumerable authors, editors, compilers, and crowned, heads, is insufficient to make it so.  And again, if you and the corresponding form of the verb are literally of the second person singular, (as Wells contends, with an array of more than sixty names of English grammarians to prove it,) then, by their own rule of concord, since thou and its verb are still generally retained in the same place by these grammarians, a verb that agrees with one of these nominatives, must also agree with the other; so that you hast and thou have, you seest and thou see, may be, so far as appears from their instructions, as good a concord as can be made of these words!

OBS. 4.—­The putting of you for thou has introduced the anomalous compound yourself, which is now very generally used in stead of thyself.  In this instance, as in the less frequent adoption of ourself for myself, Fashion so tramples upon the laws of grammar, that it is scarcely possible to frame an intelligible exception in her favour.  These pronouns are essentially singular, both in form and meaning; and yet they cannot be used with I or thou, with me or thee, or with any verb that is literally singular; as, “I ourself am.” but, on the contrary, they must be connected only with such plural terms as are put for the singular; as, “We ourself are king.”—­“Undoubtedly you yourself become an innovator.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 364; Campbell’s Rhet., 167.

   “Try touch, or sight, or smell; try what you will,
    You strangely find nought but yourself alone.”
        —­Pollok, C. of T., B. i, l. 162.

OBS. 5.—­Such terms of address, as your Majesty, your Highness, your Lordship, your Honour, are sometimes followed by verbs and pronouns of the second person plural, substituted for the singular; and sometimes by words literally singular, and of the third person, with no other figure than a substitution of who for which:  as, “Wherein your Lordship, who shines with so much distinction in the noblest assembly in the world, peculiarly excels”—­Dedication of Sale’s Koran.  “We have good cause to give your Highness the first place; who, by a continued series of favours have obliged us, not only while you moved in a lower orb, but since the Lord hath called your Highness to supreme authority.”—­Massachusetts to Cromwell, in 1654.