Future Time. 1.I fhall, or will, We fhall, or will, They have. 2. Thoufhalt, or wilt [7], have; Ye 3. He fhall, or will, 12 "What art thou, fpeak, that on defigns unknown, :Again: 319. Dr. Arbuthnot; Dodley's Poems, vol. i. Juft 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 kneweft in the fecond. In order to avoid this Grammatical Inconvenience, the two distinct forms of Thou and You are often used promifcuoufly by our modern Poets, in the fame Poem, in the fame Paragraph, and even in the fame Sentence; very inelegantly and improperly: "Now, now, I feize, I clafp thy charms; And now you burft, ah cruel! from my arms. Pope. [6] Hath properly belongs to the ferious and foJemn ftyle; bas, to the familiar. The fame may be obferved of doth and does, Prefent, To have: Paft, To have had. "But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name, that has his heart." Waller. Addifon. The nature of the style, as well as the harmony of the verfe, feems to require in these places hath and doth. [7] The Auxiliary Verb will is always thus formed in the fecond and third Perfons fingular: but the Verb to will, not being an Auxiliary, is formed regularly in those Perfons: I will, Thou willeft, He willeth, or wills. "Thou, that art the author and bestower of life, canft doubtless restore it also, if thou willft, and when thou will: but whether thou will [wilt] please to restore it, or not, that Thou alone knoweft." Atterbury, Serm. I. 7. Participle. t |