_Verbs._ The infinitives of verbs rarely have _y-_ prefixed; two examples are _y-lere_, 12, _y-se_, 334. Nor is the same prefix common before past participles; yet we find _i-gret_, 163, _i-groten_, 285, and _i-maked_, 5, as well as _maked_, 23. Infinitives end commonly in _-en_ or _-e_, as _riden_, 26, _y-lere_; also in _-n_, as _don_, 117, _leyn_, 718; and even in _-o_, as _flo_, 612, _slo_, 1364. The present singular, 3rd person, of the indicative, ends both in _-es_ or _-s_, and _-eth_ or _-th_, the former being the more usual. Examples are _longes_, 396, _leues_, 1781, _haldes_, 1382, _fedes_, 1693, _bes_, 1744, _comes_, 1767, _glides_, 1851, _þarnes_, 1913, _haues_, 1952, _etes_, 2036, _dos_, 1913; also _eteth_, 672, _haueth_, 804, _bikenneth_, 1269, _doth_, 1876, _liþ_, 673. The full form of the 2nd person is _-est_, as _louest_, 1663; but it is commonly cut down to _-es_, as _weldes_, 1359, _slepes_, 1283, _haues_, 688, _etes_, 907, _getes_, 908; cf. _dos_, 2390, _mis-gos_, 2707, _slos_, 2706. The same dropping of the _t_ is observable in the past tense, as in _reftes_, 2394, _feddes and claddes_, 2907. Still more curious is the ending in _t_ only, as in _þu bi-hetet_, 677, _þou mait_, 689; cf. ll. 852, 1348. In the subjunctive mood the _-st_ disappears as in Anglo-Saxon, and hence the forms _bute þou gonge_, 690, _þat þu fonge_, 856, &c.; cf. _bede_, 668. In the 3rd person, present tense, of the same mood, we have the _-e_ fully pronounced, as in _shildè_, 16, _yeuè_, 22, _leuè_, 334, _redè_, 687; and in l. 544, _wreken_ should undoubtedly be _wrekè_, since the _-en_ belongs to the plural, as in _moten_, 18. The plural of the indicative present ends in _-en_, as, _we hauen_, 2798, _ye witen_, 2208, _þei taken_, 1833; or, very rarely, in _-eth_, as _ye bringeth_, 2425, _he_ (they) _strangleth_, 2584. Sometimes the final _-n_ is lost, as in _we haue_, 2799, _ye do_, 2418, _he_ (they) _brenne_, 2583. There is even a trace of the plural in _-es_, as in _haues_, 2581. The _present_ tense has often a _future_ signification, as in _etes_, 907, _eteth_, 672, _getes_, 908.