_Hit_ is frequently employed as an indefinite pronoun of all genders, and is plural as well as singular. It is, as has been previously shown, uninflected in the genitive or possessive case. _Me_ in Southern writers is used as an indefinite pronoun of the _third_ person, and represents our _one_, but in the present poems it is of all persons, and seems to be placed in apposition with the subject of the sentence corresponding to our use of myself, thyself, himself, etc.; as, “_He_ swenges _me_ þys,” etc. = He himself sends this, etc.[58] “Now sweȝe _me_ þider swyftly” = Now go (thou) thyself thither swiftly.[59] “_He_ meteȝ _me_ þis good man” = He himself meets this good man.[60] Sturzen-Becker (“Some Notes on the leading Grammatical Characteristics of the Principal Early English Dialects, Copenhagen, 1868”) thinks that I have been led astray with regard to this use of _me_, which he says is nothing more than the _dativus ethicus_. The _me_ in these examples may be merely an expletive, having arisen out of the general use of the dative ethicus, but the context does not satisfy me that it has the force of a dative. Dr. Guest (Proceedings of Philolog. Soc., vol. i. p. 151-153, 1842-1844) has discussed this construction at some length, and he carefully distinguishes the dative of the 1st person from the indeterminate (or indefinite) pronoun _me_ = Fr. one. He says that in Old Frisian the indefinite pronoun has two forms, _min_ and _me_, “the latter of which seems to be always used as a suffix to the verb, as _momme_, one may; _somme_, one should,” etc. The same construction was occasionally used in our own language, and it no doubt gave rise to those curious idioms which are noticed by Pegge in his “Anecdotes of the Eng. Lang.,” p. 217. This writer, whose evidence to a _fact_ we may avail ourselves of, whatever we think of his criticism or his scholarship, quotes the following as forms of speech then prevalent among the Londoners: “and so says _me_ I;” “well what does _me_ I;” “so says _me_ she;” “then away goes _me_ he;” “what does _me_ they?” Here it is obvious that _me_ is the indeterminate pronoun, and represents the _subject_, while the personal pronoun is put in apposition to it, so that “says _me_ I” is equivalent to “_one says, that is I_,”[61]. These idioms are not unknown to our literature. (1) ‘But as he was by diverse principall young gentlemen, to his no small glorie, lifted up on horseback, _comes me a page_ of Amphialus, etc.’ Pembr. Arcad. B. iii. Other idioms, which have generally been confounded with those last mentioned, have the indeterminate pronoun preceded by a nominative absolute. (2) ‘_I_, having been acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab, and--_goes me_ to the fellow, who whips the dogs,’ etc. Two Gent. of Verona, 4. 4. (3) ‘_He thrusts me_ himself into the company of three or four gentlemanlike dogs under the Duke’s Table.’ _Ib._ See B. Jons. Ev. Man in his Humour, 3, 1.