“Impulerat ferro Argolicas fœdare latebras.”—Virgil.
[71] The Latins used si in both cases: and though their poets did not attend to this distinction, their prose writers generally observed it, by joining si for quoniam with the indicative mood.
[72] Where R is added, the verb follows also the general rule.
[73] Some have excluded bore as the preterite of this verb. We have sufficient authority, however, for admitting it; thus,
“By marrying her who bore me.”—Dryden.
[74] Beholden is obsolescent in this sense.
[75] “So kept the diamond, and the rogue was bit.”—Pope.
“There was lately a young gentleman bit to the bone.”—Tatler.
[76] Brake seems now obsolescent.
[77] Though Johnson has not admitted the regular form of the participle in this verb, I think there is sufficient authority for concurring with Lowth in receiving builded as the participle as well as built, though it be not in such general use.