The Ormulum, the Bestiary, and Genesis and Exodus have some few other points of agreement which will be found noticed in the Grammatical Details and Glossary. There are, however, grammatical forms in the latter works which do not present themselves in the former, and which, in my opinion, seem to indicate a more Southern origin. (See Preface to O.E. Homilies, 2nd Series.) I. Plurals in _n_. I do not recollect any examples of plurals in _n_ in the Ormulum, except _ehne_, eyes; in this poem we have _colen_, coals; _deden_, deeds; _fon_, foes; _siðen_, sides; _son_, shoes; _steden_, places; _sunen_, sons; _tren_, trees; _teten_, teats; _wunen_, laws, abilities, etc. (see p. xxii.) II. The pronoun _is_ (_es_) = them.[22] In the fourteenth century we only find this form _is_ (_hise_) in pure _Southern_ writers.[23] "Diep he _iſ_ dalf under an ooc."[24]—(_Gen. and Ex._, l. 1873, p. 54.) "For ſalamon findin _iſ_ ſal."[25]—(_Ibid._, l. 1877, p. 54.) "He toc _iſ_."[26]—(_Ibid._, l. 2654, p. 76.) "Alle hise fet steppes After him he filleð, Drageð dust wið his stert (_O.E. Miscell._, p. 1.) ðer he steppeð, Oðer dust oðer deu, ðat he ne cunne _is_ finden."[27] Our author, however, employs this curious pronoun in a way quite peculiar to himself, for he constantly joins it to a _pronoun_ or a _verb_,[28] and the compound was at first rather perplexing. _Hes_ = _he_ + _is_, he, them; _wes_ = _we_ + _is_, we, them;[29] _caldes_, called them; _dedis_, did (placed) them; _settes_, set them; _wroutis_, wrought them, etc. "Alle _hes_ hadde wið migte bi-geten."[30]—(_Gen. and Ex._, l. 911, p. 26.) "Vndelt _heſ_ leide quor-so _heſ_ tok."[31]—(_Ibid._, l. 943, p. 27.) "Ðe culuer haueð costes gode, alle _wes_ ogen to hauen in mode."[32]—(_O.E. Miscell._, p. 25.) "Bala two childre bar bi him, Rachel _caldes_ dan(.) neptalim; And zelfa two sunes him ber, Lia _calde is_(.) Gad(.) and asser."[33]—(_Gen. and Ex._, l. 1700, p. 49.) "ðe tabernacle he _dedis_ in."[34]—(_Ibid._, l. 3830, p. 109.) "He _settes_ in ðe firmament."[35]—(_Ibid._, l. 135, p. 5.) In the Kentish Ayenbite of 1340 _he_ never coalesces with _hise_ (them), _e.g._:— "He (the devil) is lyeȝere and vader of leazinges, ase he þet made þe verste leazinge, and yet _he hise_ makeþ and tekþ eche daye."—(Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 47.) (He is a liar and the father of leasings, as he that made the first leasing, and yet _he them_, i.e. lies, maketh and teacheth each day.) In Old Kentish Sermons (Old Eng. Miscell p. 28) _has_ = _ha_ + _es_ = he them. III. The pronoun _he_, they (Southern _hii_, _heo_; Northumbrian _thay_). Orm uses _þeȝȝ_, as well as _þeȝȝer_ (their), _þeȝȝm_ (them).[36]