XXV. They place the infinitive before the word on which it depends; as,
1. "When first thy sire to send on earth
Virtue, his darling child, design'd"
—Gray.
2. "As oft as I, to kiss the flood, decline;
So oft his lips ascend, to close with mine."
—Sandys.
3. "Besides, Minerva, to secure her care,
Diffus'd around a veil of thicken'd air."
—Pope.
XXVI. They place the auxiliary verb after its principal, by hyperbaton; as,
1. "No longer heed the sunbeam bright
That plays on Carron's breast he can"
—Langhorne.
2. "Follow I must, I cannot go before."
—Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 147.
3. "The man who suffers, loudly may complain;
And rage he may, but he shall rage in vain."
—Pope.
XXVII. Before verbs, they sometimes arbitrarily employ or omit prefixes: as, bide, or abide; dim, or bedim; gird, or begird; lure, or allure; move, or emove; reave, or bereave; vails, or avails; vanish, or evanish; wail, or bewail; weep, or beweep; wilder, or bewilder:—
1. "All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide
In heav'n, or earth, or under earth in hell."
—Milton, P. L., B. iii, l. 321.