This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... gi, she, gen. izos, dat. izai, as Mr. Morris suggests (see „The Reader" 1864, May 28, p. 689). In Kentish writers of the 14th century this pronoun is rather com-' mon.. Besides Robert of Gloucester occasionally makes use of the word. I now give examples of the old fem. accusative forms. be nijtingale hi (sc. po hule) i-sej, and hi bi-hold and over-sej, And bujte wel wl of bare hule, For me h i halt lodlich and fule. O. a. N. 29, 32. An Ierdest hi (sc. the lefti) to don shome an un-rijt of hire licome. Ib. 1051. Senne hys swete and lyketh, wanne a man hi deth and also soure hy bryketh wane he venjaunce y-seth. Shoreh. p.. 102. To healde hy (sc. the earthe) op. Ib p. 136.--Eneam he heo (sc. pe dojter) biheyte. Laj. I. p. 7. he heo wolde habben to heijen are quene. Ib. I. p. 8. The nijtingale heo bi-thohte. O. a. N. 937.--he hoe (sc. e boc) jef pare aeBelen Alienor. Lay I p. Tha he by hyre ne ligge noujt, other halt hys ine hys house. Shoreham p. 77. Ho halt ys (sc. the erthe) op? Ib p. 136. Josephes lhevdy ho hy vand alone him, hi wold do him zeneji mid hire, ac he him ledde avse wys and hise vorlet. Dan. M. p. 206. Thervore the dyevel playth ofte mid the zene jere ase deth the cat mid the mouse, thanne he hi s heth ynome, and huanne he heth mid hire longe yplayed thanne he his eth. Ib. p. 179. he acsede ate guode wyfman po he hadde hise ycleped. Ib. p. 190.--He is kinges croune nom & sette is vpe rode heved. R. Gl. fol. 93 a. (quoted by Morris). The neuter pronoun hit in O.E. is in the South, d. promiscuously spelled hit and it. (As an orthographical peculiarity we must regard the form hyjt in Shoreham). TheNorth and East Midi, dialects have always the abbreviated form it, the West Midland hit. The genitive his, common to all dialects, is in ...
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