sweetie, you got me there

modern readers would prefer to put 'i' before 'myself'. grammatically it would not be correct to use myself alone (in my view). true, in poetry, we have seen it:
shakespeare (dramas):
1. Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.
2. Myself will straight aboard: and to the state 
    

or
emily dickinson:
to wonder what myself will say

i think the reason they did not add 'i' before 'myself' was that myself is an iamb (unstressed/stressed). for instance, in a sonnet, we normally use iambic pentameter (5 iambs) for each line, and such an iamb was necessary in classic poetry for its musical effect.

true 語堂 used it too (the 4th line):
http://web.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=mysj&MsgID=59340

but normally in writing, i think we should not use this way.
another popular usage (in my opinion, not grammatically correct either) is this:
she and myself will go there
(it should be: she and i will go there)
in fact, shakespeare had such a sentence also:
Lysander and myself will fly this place.

if you look at all the sentences, after myself, there is a word 'will' or 'have' after 'myself'.

what if you say:

myself am fine
myself is fine
or
myself are fine

none sounds good, right?

therefore i would prefer to add 'i' before 'myself'.

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