_Sing. Nom._ _hit_ _he_ heó. _Acc._ _hit_ hine hí. _Dat._ _him_ _him_ _hire._ _Gen._ _his_ _his_ _hire._ \_________ __________/ \/ _Plur. Nom. Acc._ hi _Dat._ him (heom). _Gen._ hira (heora). IV. _þe_ (the)--Undeclined, and used for all cases and genders. § 232. _These_.--Here observe-- 1st. That the s is no inflection, but a radical part of the word, like the s in _geese_. 2nd. That the Anglo-Saxon form is _þás_. These facts create difficulties in respect to the word _these_. Mr. Guest's view is, perhaps, the best; viz., that the plural element of the word is the final -e, and that this -e is the old English and Anglo-Saxon adjective plural; so that _thes-e_ is formed from _this_, as _gode_ ( = _boni_) is from _god_ ( = _bonus_). The nominative plural in the Old English adjective ended in -e; as, _Singular._ _Plural._ _M._ _F._ _N._ _M._ _F._ _N._ _God_, _god_, _god_, _gode_. In Old English MSS. this plural in -e is general. It occurs not only in adjectives and pronouns as a regular inflection, but even as a plural of the genitive _his_, that word being treated as a nominative singular; so that _hise_ is formed from _his_, as _sui_ from _suus_, or as _eji_ might have been formed from _ejus_; provided that in the Latin language this last word had been mistaken for a nominative singular. The following examples are Mr. Guest's. 1. In these lay a gret multitude of _syke_ men, _blinde_, crokid, and _drye_.--_Wicliffe_, Jon. v. 2. In all the orders foure is non that can So much of dalliance and faire language, He hadde ymade ful many a marriage-- His tippet was ay farsed ful of knives, And pinnes for to given _faire_ wives.--_Chau._, Prol. 3. And _al_ the cuntre of Judee wente out to him, and _alle_ men of Jerusalem.--_Wicliffe_, Mark i. 4. He ghyueth lif to _alle_ men, and brething, and _alle_ thingis; and made of von _al_ kynde of men to inhabit on _al_ the face of the erthe.--_Wicliffe_, Dedis of Apostlis, xvii. 5. That fadres sone which _alle_ thinges wrought; And _all_, that wrought is with a skilful thought, The Gost that from the fader gan procede, Hath souled hem.--_Chau._, The Second Nonnes Tale. 6. And _alle_ we that ben in this aray And maken _all_ this lamentation, We losten _alle_ our husbondes at that toun.--_Chau._, The Knightes Tales. 7. A _good_ man bryngeth forth _gode_ thingsis of _good_ tresore.--_Wicliffe_, Matt. xii. 8. So every _good_ tree maketh _gode_ fruytis, but an yvel tree maketh yvel fruytes. A _good_ tree may not mak yvel fruytis, neither an yvel tree may make _gode_ fruytis. Every tree that maketh not _good_ fruyt schal be cut down.--_Wicliffe_, Matt. vii.