I. The Ring and the Book, 1358.

i.e., would be abolished.

"His peevishness had promptly put aside
Such honor and refused the proffered boon," . . .
II. Half Rome (R. and B.), 369.

i.e., would have promptly put aside.

"(What daily pittance pleased the plunderer dole.)"
X. The Pope (R. and B.), 561.

i.e., as the context shows, [it] might please the plunderer [to] dole.

"succession to the inheritance
Which bolder crime had lost you:"
IV. Tertium Quid (R. and B.), 1104.

i.e., would have lost you.

But the verbs "be" and "have" are chiefly so used, and not often
beyond what present usage allows. *

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* Tennyson uses "saw" = `viderem', in the following passage: --

"But since I did not see the Holy Thing,
I sware a vow to follow it till I saw."
Sir Percivale in `The Holy Grail'.