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INTRODUCTION.
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111., 208 ; IV., 367 ; V., 520; VI., 253; fethred, I., 262 ;
fostred, I., 230 ; furthred, V., 284 ; hapned, III., 422 ;
hardned, I., 331; II., 144; lightned, Ep. Dedic., 40 ;
murdred, III., 330 ; opned, II., 256 ; V., 364 ; quickned,
11., 148, 247 ; scattred, Arg., 7 ; Sommarie I., 12 ; I., 44;
II., 16; suffred, Arg., 27; IV., 232; sulphred, III., 167;
wandred, I., 103 ; watred, III., 245 ; wondred, IV., 334.
ACCIDENCE.
40. Indefinite Article.—The use of this is perfectly
regular according to present usage. What looks like a
Middle Scots use, an naile, III., 366, is probably only an
error of scribe or printer.
41. Noun.—There are three instances of the ‘ his '
genitive—viz., lethro his sheepe, II., 126 ; the world his
end, IV., 436; and the world his bound, VI., 8. On
Riphees, III., 168, see the note ad loc. The plural normally
ends in -es. Twice only is it syllabic where it would not
be now, viz. :—
In huge of learned bookes that they pend, I., 102.
Of secrete billes, but by willing act, IV., 206.
Horse, II., 421, and yeare, II., 45, are uninflected plurals.
The weak plural, eene, occurs twice.1 Brether1 is the
normal Northern plural form.
42. Pronoun.—The pronouns occur only in their English
forms.
43. Adjective.—Postposited inflected adjectives occur in
corses infidels, VI., 304, and children males, II., 86. Beggers
bolts, II., 9, may be an imitation of this construction.
Neare, V., 82, is an archaic comparative ; worser, VI.,
1 See Glossary for references.