9. Men loveden more darknessis than light for her werkes weren _yvele_, for ech man that doeth _yvel_, hateth the light.--_Wicliffe_, John iii. 10. And _othere_ seedis felden among thornes wexen up and strangliden hem, and _othere_ seedis felden into good lond and gaven fruyt, sum an hundred fold, _another_ sixty fold, an _other_ thritty fold, &c.--_Wicliffe_, Matt. xiii. 11. Yet the while he spake to the puple lo _his_ mother and _hise_ brethren stonden withoute forth.--_Wicliffe_, Mat. xii. 12. And _hise_ disciplis camen and taken _his_ body.--_Wicliffe_, Matt., xiv. 13. When _thise_ Bretons tuo were fled out of _this_ lond Ine toke his feaute of alle, &c.--_Rob Brunne_, p. 3. 14. _This_ is thilk disciple that bereth witnessyng of _these_ thingis, and wroot them.--_Wicliffe_, John xxi. 15. Seye to us in what powers thou doist _these_ thingis, and who is he that gaf to thee _this_ power.--_Wicliffe_, Luke xx. § 233. _Those_.--Perhaps the Anglo-Saxon _þá_ with s added. Perhaps the _þás_ from _þis_ with its power altered. Rask, in his Anglo-Saxon Grammar, writes "from _þis_ we find, in the plural, _þæs_ for _þás_. From which afterwards, with a distinction in signification, _these_ and _those_." The English form _they_ is illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon form _ðage_ = _þá_. The whole doctrine of the forms in question has yet to assume a satisfactory shape. The present declension of the demonstrative pronouns is as follows:-- A. _She_.--Defective in the oblique cases. B. _He_. _Masc._ _Neut._ _Fem._ _Nom._ He It (from _hit_) -- _Acc._ Him It Her. _Dat._ Him -- Her. _Gen._ His -- Her. _Secondary Gen._ -- Its Hers. No plural form. C. I. _That_. _Neut._ _Masc._ _Fem._ _Sing. Nom._ That -- -- _Acc._ That Than, then[49] -- _Dat._ -- -- There.[49] _Instrumental_ _Thence._ _Plur. Nom._ They.[50] _Acc._ Them.[50] _Gen._ Their.[50] _Secondary Gen._ Theirs.[50] II. _Singular_, This. _Plural_, These. III. _Those_. IV. _The_--Undeclined. * * * * * CHAPTER VIII. THE RELATIVE, INTERROGATIVE, AND CERTAIN OTHER PRONOUNS. § 234. In the relative and interrogative pronouns, _who_, _what_, _whom_, _whose_, we have, expressed by a change of form, a neuter gender, _what_; a dative case _whom_; and a genitive case, _whose_: the true power of the s (viz., as the sign of a case) being obscured by the orthographical addition of the e mute.