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VOCABULARY
III, 333, Where breaks a world aflower against the sun . . .
337, ... a brand . . . asmoulder awhile from the pyre . . .
All these occur in the volume called «Songs of the
Springtides*. A new adverb not to be found in
dictionaries occurs in St. Dorothy, a legend in verse of the * Poems
and Ballads 1». The Emperor Gabalus there says, after
hearing St. Dorothy’s confession of her faith:
1, 245, I were as lief fall in some big beast’s jaws
As hear these women’s jaw-teeth clattering:
By God a woman is the harder thing,
One may not put a crook into her mouth.
Now by St. Luke 1 am so sore adrouth
For all these saws 1 must needs drink again.
Finally we find:
III, 201, From scuppers aspirtwith blood, from guns dismounted
and dumb.
-wise, -like, -ly, and -fashion all are used for the
formation of adverbs in a suffixal way, though they may not
all be labelled suffixes, -wise has the greatest number of
formations, the majority of which are found in the first
series of «Poems and Ballads». As to the rest, they are
pretty evenly distributed among the different works.
-wise gives the following eleven cases.
I, 1, She held a little cithern by the strings,
Shaped heartwise . . .
12, Behold, my Venus, my soul’s body lies
With my love laid upon her garment-wise . . .
214, . . . Shall wax vinewise to a lordly vine whose grapes
Bleed the red heavy blood of swoln soft wine . . .
254, ... If love of his might move that face at all,
Tuned evenwise with colours musical . . .
As is obvious, all these instances occur in highly
conventionalized connections.
II, 12, Fostress of obscure lands,
Whose multiplying hands
Wove the world’s web with divers races fair
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