As I have made ye one, Lords, one remain;
So I grow stronger you more honour gain.
Henry VIII. 4, 2.
What gain you by forbidding it to teaze ye,
It now can neither trouble you nor please ye.
Dryden."
In German and the Danish the pronomen reverentiæ is got at by a change, not of number, but of person—in other words, the pronoun of the third person is used instead of that of the second; just as if, in the English, we said will they walk=will you walk, will ye walk, wilt thou walk.
[§ 504]. Dativus ethicus.—In the phrase
Rob me the exchequer.—Henry IV.
the me is expletive, and is equivalent to for me. This expletive use of the dative is conveniently called the dativus ethicus. It occurs more frequently in the Latin than in the