trimmings, flowers, bows, and ribbons, as you please; it is a
bonnet still; and when we speak of it we will call it a _bonnet_, and
talk about its _appendages_. But when it is constructed into something
else, then we will give it a new name.

Adjectives, we have said, are _derived_ from either nouns or verbs, and
we now contend that the words formerly regarded as adverbs are either
adjectives, nouns, or verbs. In defence of this sentiment we will
adduce a few words in this place for examples.

=Ago.= "Three years _ago_, we dwelt in the country." This word is a past
participle from the verb _ago_, meaning the same as _gone_ or _agone_,
and was so used a few centuries _ago_--_agone_, or _gone by_.

"For euer the latter ende of ioye is wo,
God wotte, worldly ioye is soone _ago_."
_Chaucer._

"For if it erst was well, tho was it bet
A thousand folde, this nedeth it not require
_Ago_ was euery sorowe and euery fere."
_Troylus, boke 3, p. 2._

"Of such examples as I finde
Upon this point of tyme _agone_
I thinke for to tellen one."
_Gower_, lib. 5, p. 1.

"Which is no more than has been done
By knights for ladies, long _agone_."
_Hudibras._

"Twenty years _agone_."
_Tillotson's sermon._

"Are all _the go_."
_Knickerbocker._

=Astray.= "They went astray." _Astrayed_, wandered or were scattered,
and of course soon became _estranged_ from each other. Farmers all know
what it is for cattle to _stray_ from home; and many parents have felt
the keen pangs of sorrow when their sons _strayed_ from the paths of
virtue. In that condition they are _astray-ed_.

"This prest was drank and goth _astrayede_."

"Achab to the bottle went.
When Benedad for all his shelde
Him slough, so that upon the felde
His people goth aboute _astraie_."
_Gower._

=Awake.= "He is _awake_." "Samson _awaked_ out of his sleep." "That I
may _awake_ him out of sleep." "It is high time to _awake_." "As a man
that is _wakened_ out of sleep." The Irish hold _a wake_--they do not
sleep the night after the loss of friends.

=Asleep.=

"When that pyte, which longe _on sleep_ doth tary
Hath set the fyne of al my heuynesse."
_Chaucer, La