So spake the false Arch-Angel, and infus'd
Bad influence into th' unwarie brest
Of his Associate; hee (i. e. the associate) together calls,
&c.

An examination of other passages, where there is no antithesis,
goes to show that the lengthened form of the pronoun is most
frequent before a pause (as vii. 95); or at the end of a line (i.
245, 257); or when a foot is inverted (v. 133); or when as
object it precedes its verb (v. 612; vii. 747), or as subject
follows it (ix. 1109; x. 4). But as we might expect under
circumstances where a purist could not correct his own proofs,
there are not a few inconsistencies. There does not seem, for
example, any special emphasis in the second wee of the
following passage:

Freely we serve.
Because wee freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall (v. 538).


On the other hand, in the passage (iii. 41) in which the poet
speaks of his own blindness:

Thus with the Year
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, &c.

where, if anywhere, we should expect mee, we do not find it,
though it occurs in the speech eight lines below. It should be