ABSTRACT
10.1(1). I have quotations for the old were (in the singular) in wishes from Shakespeare (Ado IV. 1.305 O that I were a man! etc., etc.), Defoe, Swift, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Marryat, Thackeray, George Eliot, Smedley, Hall Caine, Merriman, Swinburne, Philips and other writers.
