Now I lay _me_ down to sleep.--ANON.

I set _me_ down and sigh.--BURNS.

And millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight of years began, have laid _them_ down
In their last sleep.--BRYANT.



REFLEXIVE OR COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS.


[Sidenote: _Composed of the personal pronouns with_ -self, -selves.]

94. The REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS, or COMPOUND PERSONAL, as they are also
called, are formed from the personal pronouns by adding the word
_self_, and its plural _selves_.

They are _myself_, (_ourself_), _ourselves_, _yourself_, (_thyself_),
_yourselves_, _himself_, _herself_, _itself_, _themselves_.

Of the two forms in parentheses, the second is the old form of the
second person, used in poetry.

_Ourself_ is used to follow the word _we_ when this represents a
single person, especially in the speech of rulers; as,--

Methinks he seems no better than a girl;