ABSTRACT
Many irregularities in syntax can be explained on the same principle, e.g. sentences like" Hee that rewards me, heaven reward him "(Sh.). When a writer uses the pronoun thou, he will have no difficulty in adding the proper ending -st to the verb if it follows immediately upon the pronoun; but if it does not he will be apt to forget it and use the form that is suitable to the you which may be at the back of his mind. Thus in Shakespeare (Tp. I. 2. 333) "Thou stroalcst me, and made much of me." Byron apostrophizes Sulla (Oh. H. IV. 83): "Thou, who didst subdue Thy country's foes ere thou wouldst pause to feel The wrath of thy own wrongs, or reap the due Of hoarded vengeance ... thou who with thy frown Annihilated senates ... thou didst lay down," etc. In Byron such transitions are not uncommon.
