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.
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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 Tale.
7. A _good_ man bryngeth forth _gode_ thingis 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.
9. Men loveden more darknessis than light for her werkes weren _yvele_,
for ech man that doeth _yvel_, hateth the light.--_Wicliffe_, Jon. 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_, Matt. xii.
12. And _hise_ disciplis camen and token _his_ body.--_Wicliffe_, Matt.
xiv.
13. Whan _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.
s. 302. _Those._--Perhaps the Anglo-Saxon _th['a]_ with _s_ added. Perhaps
the _th['a]s_ from _this_ with its power altered. Rask, in his Anglo-Saxon
Grammar, writes "from this we find, in the plural, thaes for th['a]s. From
which afterwards, with a distinction in signification, _these_ and
_those_." The English form _they_ is illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon form
_dhage_=_th['a]_. 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:--
I.
_The_--Undeclined.
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II.
_She_--Defective in the oblique cases.
III.
_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.
IV.
_That._
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