Deeper Dive: yourself
Your*self"
(?), pron.; pl.Yourselves (#). [Your + self.] An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself.
Of which right now ye han yourselve heard.
Chaucer.
If yourselves are old, make it your cause.
Shak.
Why should you be so cruel to yourself ?
Milton.
The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last.
J. H. Newman.
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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