Only allowed initiate, set man's step
In the true way by help of the great glow?"
R. and B. X. The Pope, v. 1815.

i.e. only allowed [to] initiate, [to] set man's step, etc.

"If I might read instead of print my speech, --
Ay, and enliven speech with many a flower
Refuses obstinately blow in print."
R. and B. IX. Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, v. 4.

Here the subject relative of "refuses" is omitted, and the verb
followed by an infinitive without the prepositive:
"many a flower [that] refuses obstinately [to] blow in print."


3. Instead of the modern analytic form, the simple form
of the past subjunctive derived from the Anglo-Saxon inflectional form,
and identical with that of the past indicative, is frequently employed,
the context only showing that it is the subjunctive. (See Abbott's
`Shakespearian Grammar', 361 et seq.)

"Would we some prize might hold
To match those manifold
Possessions of the brute, -- gain most, as we did best!"
Rabbi Ben Ezra, St. xi.

i.e., as we should do best.

"Thus were abolished Spring and Autumn both,"