So, too, we not only find _tane_ (taken), _gais_ (goes), but also the forms _tone_ and _goß_. See lines 1071, 1073. 2. The true plural form of the verb is shewn by lines 203, 204, “Of quhois fame and worschipful dedis Clerkis into diuerß bukis _redis_,” where alteration would have ruined the rime utterly; and the same termination (_-is_) is correctly used in the imperative mood, as, ----“ſo _giffis_ ws delay” (l. 463); “And of thi wordis _beis_ trew and stable” (l. 1671); but the termination _-ith_ is continually finding its way into the poem, even as early as in the fourth line, “_Uprisith_ arly in his fyre chare;” and in the imperative mood also, as, “_Remembrith_ now it stondith one the poynt” (l. 797). The most singular point of all, however, is this--that, not content with changing _-is_ into _-ith_ in the 3rd person singular, the scribe has done the same even in the 2nd person, thus producing words which belong to no pure example of any distinct dialect. Observe the following lines:-- “O woful wrech, that _levis_ in to were! To schew the thus the god of loue me sent, That of thi seruice no thing is content, For in his court yhoue [= thou] _lewith_ in disspar, And vilfully _sustenis_ al thi care, And _schapith_ no thinge of thine awn remede, Bot _clepith_ ay and _cryith_ apone dede,” etc. (ll. 84-90). Here _levis_ is altered into _lewith_, not only unnecessarily, but quite wrongly. For similar mistakes, see ll. 1019, 1369, 1384, 2203. For examples of correct usage, see ll. 1024, 1337, 1796, 2200, 2201. 3. But the terminations which are used in the most confused manner of all are _-en_, _-yne_, and _-ing_ or _-yng_. Thus we find the non-Scottish infinitives, _telen_ (494), _makine_ (191); the constant substitution of _-ing_ for _-and_ in the present participle;[P11] a confusion between the past participial ending _-ine_ (more correctly _-yn_), and the present ending _-and_, thus producing such forms as _thinkine_ (34), and _besichyne_ (418); and also a confusion between _-ing_ and the past participial ending _-en_, as _fundyng_ for _funden_ (465), _fallyng_ for _fallen_ (1217, 1322, 3267), _swellyng_ for _swollen_ (1222), and _halding_ for _halden_ (2259). We even find _-ing_ in the infinitive mood, as in _awysing_ (424), _viting_ (to know, 410), _smyting_ (1326), _warnnyng_ (1035), _passing_ (2148), _ſchewing_ (2736), etc.; and, lastly, it occurs in the plural of the indicative present, instead of the Midland _-en_; as in _passing_ (1166), _biding_ (2670), and _levyng_ (3304).[P12] [Footnote P11: We find the true forms occasionally, as _obeisand_ (641), _plesand_ (1731), _thinkand_ (2173), _prekand_ (3089), and _fechtand_ (3127). Compare the form _seruand_ (122).]