Future Time. We 1. I shall, or will, They } shall, or will, have. Imperative "What art thou, speak, that on defigns unknown, While others fleep, thus range the camp alone?" Pope's Iliad, x. go. "Accept these grateful tears; for thee they flow: For thee, that ever felt another's woe." Ib. xix. 319. "Faultless thou dropt from his unerring skill." Dr. Arbuthnot, Dodsley's Poems, vol. i. Again: "Just of thy word, in every thought fincere; Who knew no wish, but what the world might hear." Pope, Epitaph. It ought to be your in the first line, or knewest in the fecond. In order to avoid this Grammatical Inconvenience, the two distinct forms of Thou and You are often used promiscuoufly by our modern Poets, in the same Poem, in the fame Paragraph, and even in the fame Sentence, very inelegantly and improperly: "Now, now, I feize, I clasp thy charms; Pope. [6] Hath properly belongs to the serious and folemn style; has to the familiar. The same may be observed of doth and does. "But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name, that has his heart." Waller. "Th Present; To have: Past, to have had. Participle. Present, Having: Perfect [8], Had: TO Addifon. "Th' unwearied Sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display." The nature of the style, as well as the harmony of the verse, seems to require in these places hath and doth. [7] The Auxiliary Verb vill is always thus formed in the second and third Persons fingular: but the Verb to will, not being an Auxiliary, is formed regularly in those Persons: I will, Thou willest, He willeth, or wills. "Thou, that art the author and belower of life, canst doubtless restore it also, if thou will'st, and when thou will'st: but whether thou will'st [wilt] please to reflore it, or not, that Thou alone knowest." Atterbury, Serm. I. 7. [8] This participle represents the action as complete and finished; and, being fubjoined to the Auxiliary to have, C5 have, conftitutes the Perfect Time: I call it therefore the Perfect Participle. The same, fubjoined to the Auxiliary to be, constitutes the Passive Verb; and in that state, or when used without the Auxiliary in a Paffive semse, is called the Passive Participle. [9] "I think it be thine indeed; for thou lieft in it." Shakespear, Hamlet. Be, in the fingular Number of this Time and Mode, especially in the third Person, is obsolete; and is become fomewhat antiquated in the Plural. Imperative Perfon. "I knew thou wert not flow to hear." Addison. Milton. Dryden. "Thou who of old wert sent to Ifrael's court." Prior. "All this thou wert." Pope. Swift. "Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp I ftrung." Shall we in deference to these great authorities allow wert to be the same with wast, and common to the indicative, and Subjunctive Mode ? or rather abide by the practice of our best ancient writers; the propriety of the language, which requires, as far as may be, distinct forms for different Modes; and the analogy of formation in each Mode; I was, Thou waft; I were, Thou wert ? all which conspire to make awert peculiar to the Subjunctive Mode. |