So you were born in wrong time. You bemoan your fate in the language of the time you wish you were born in. It’s a nice conceit. It is clear that you take much delight in that language. I have some sympathy in that I enjoy passages from the King James Bible more than modern translations even if I understand the meaning less clearly.
My main difficulty is that you were not in fact born in 17th or 18th century, and I cannot be sure you are using the language as it would actually have been used at that time. I’m not sure I can trust you. I worry that, even if you are a very knowledgeable scholar of older englishes, you may still be writing some form of gadzookery.
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