o say Lysander lied."--_Shak_. "As if I _meaned_ not the first
but the second creation."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 289. "From some stones
have rivers _bursted_ forth."--_Sale's Koran_, Vol. i, p. 14.

"So move we on; I only _meant_
To show the reed on which you _leant_."--_Scott, L. L._, C. v, st. 11.

OBS. 8.--_Layed, payed_, and _stayed_, are now less common than _laid,
paid_, and _staid_; but perhaps not less correct, since they are the same
words in a more regular and not uncommon orthography: "Thou takest up that
[which] thou _layedst_ not down."--FRIENDS' BIBLE, SMITH'S, BRUCE'S:
_Luke_, xix, 21. Scott's Bible, in this place, has "_layest_," which is
wrong in tense. "Thou _layedst_ affliction upon our loins."--FRIENDS'
BIBLE: _Psalms_, lxvi, 11. "Thou _laidest_ affliction upon our
loins."--SCOTT'S BIBLE, _and_ BRUCE'S. "Thou _laidst_ affliction upon our
loins."--SMITH'S BIBLE, Stereotyped by J. Howe. "Which gently _lay'd_ my
knighthood on my shoulder."--SINGER'S SHAKSPEARE: _Richard II_, Act i, Sc.
1. "But no regard was _payed_ to his remonstrance."--_Smollett's England_,
Vol. iii, p. 212. "Therefore the heaven over you is _stayed_ from dew, and
the earth is _stayed_ from her fruit."--_Haggai_, i, 10. "STAY, _i_. STAYED
_or_ STAID; _pp_. STAYING, STAYED _or_ STAID."--_Worcester's Univ. and
Crit. Dict._ "Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz _stayed_ by En-rogel."--_2 Sam._,
xvii, 17. "This day have I _payed_ my vows."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Prov_, vii,
14. Scott's Bible has "_paid_." "They not only _stayed_ for their resort,
but discharged divers."--HAYWARD: _in Joh. Dict._ "I _stayed_ till the
latest grapes were ripe."--_Waller's Dedication_. "_To lay_ is regular, and
has in the past time and participle _layed_ or _laid_."--_Lowth's Gram._,
p. 54. "To the flood, that _stay'd_ her flight."--_Milton's Comus_, l. 832.
"All rude, all waste, and desolate is _lay'd_."--_Rowe's Lucan_, B. ix, l.
1636. "And he smote thrice, and _stayed_."--_2 Kings_, xiii, 18.

"When Cobham, generous as the noble peer
That wears his honours, _pay'd_ the fatal price
Of virtue blooming, ere the storms were _laid_."--_Shenstone_, p. 167.

OBS. 9.--By the foregoing citations, _lay, pay_, and _stay_, are clearly
proved to be redundant. But, in nearly all our English grammars, _lay_ and
_pay_ are represented as being always irregular; and _stay_ is as often,
and as improperly, supposed to be always regular. Other examples in proof
of the list