Johnson considers the _me_ in examples 2 and 3 to be the oblique case of the first pers. pron., and treats it as “a ludicrous expletive.” It is difficult to say how he would have parsed example 2 on such a hypothesis. With these instances of the use of _me_ (indef. or reflexive), the reader may compare the following: (1) “Suche a touche in that tyde, _he_ taȝte (Gauan) hym in tene And _gurdes me_, Sir Gallerun, evyn grovelonges on grounde.” (The Anturs of Arther at the Tarnewathelan, p. 22.) (2) There at the dore he (the Fox) cast _me_ downe hys pack. Spenser’s Shep. Cal. ed. Morris, p. 460, l. 243. Cp. _Cut me_, i. Hen. IV. Act 4. Sc. 4; _steps me_, Ib. Act 4, Sc. 3; _comes me, runs me_, Ib. Act 3, Sc. 1. (3) “Juno enraged, and fretting thus, _Runs me_ unto one Æolus.” --(Virgile Travestie, 1664.) The indefinite _me_ = one is not uncommon in Elizabethan writers. Cf. “_touch me_ his hat;” “_touch me_ hir with a pint of sack,” etc.; “and _stop me_ his dice you are a villaine” (Lodge’s Wit’s Miserie). The following table exhibits the declension of the personal and relative pronouns:-- SINGULAR. Nom. I, thou, he, ho, hit. Gen. My, myn, thy, thyn, his, hir, her, hit. Dat. Me, the, him, hir, her, hit. Acc. Me, the, him, hir, her, hit. PLURAL. Nom. We, ȝe, thay, hit. Gen. Oure, yor, youre, her (here), hor, hit. Dat. Vus (= uus), yow, you, hem, hom, hit. Acc. Vus (= uus), yow, you, hem, hom, hit. Nom. Who (quo). Gen. Whose (quos). Dat. { Whom, Wham } (quom). Acc. { Whom, Wham } (quom). [Footnote 56: _Scho_ occurs _once_ in the present poems.] [Footnote 57: _Yowreȝ_ (yours) sometimes takes the place of _youre_ in the romance of “Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt.”] [Footnote 58: Page 92, l. 108.] [Footnote 59: Page 91, l. 72.] [Footnote 60: Syr Gawayn, l. 1932.] [Footnote 61: I would say that _says me I_ = I myself say. --R. M.] IV. +Verbs.+ _Infinitive Mood._--The _-en_ of the infinitive is frequently dropped, without even a final _-e_ to mark its omission. Infinitives in _-y_, as _louy_ (love), _schony_ (shun), _spotty_ (spot, defile), _styry_ (stir), _wony_ (dwell), occasionally occur, and probably owe their appearance to the author’s acquaintance with Southern literature.[62] _Indicative Mood._--The final _e_ often disappears in the first and third persons of the preterite tense, as I _loved_, he _loved_, instead of I _lovede_, he _lovede_. The _-en_ in the plural of the present and preterite tenses is frequently dropped. The pl. present in _-eȝ_ occasionally occurs. _Imperative Mood._--The imperative plural ends in _-es_ (_eȝ_), and not in _-eth_ as in the Southern and ordinary Midland dialects. _Participles._--The active or imperfect participle ends in _-ande_[63] and never in _-ing_.