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Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

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It was "exceedingly common in the 16th-18th cent.," according to the New English Dict., which gives examples from Captain John Smith, Marlowe, and Defoe.
62--*swound*.

An archaic form of "swoon," found in Elizabethan English.
64--*thorough*.

"Through" and "thorough" are originally the same word, and in Shakespeare's time both forms were used for the preposition.Cf.

Puck's song in "Midsummer Night's Dream," "Thorough bush, thorough briar." 67--*eat*.

This form (pronounced _et_) is still in use in England and New England for the past tense of the verb, though in America the form "ate" is now preferred.


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