Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue Part 6

8. We permit the will of otheres be letting; as, let G.o.d aryse; let everie man have his awn wyfe.

9. We bid our inferioures, and pray our superioures, be postponing the supposit to the verb; as, goe ye and teach al nationes; here me, my G.o.d.

OF THE TYME OF THE VERB.

Cap. 9.

1. Tyme is an affection of the verb noating the differences of tyme, and is either present, past, or to c.u.m.

2. Tyme present is that q_uhi_lk now is; as, I wryte, or am wryting.

3. Tyme past is that q_uhi_lk was, and it is pa.s.sing befoer, past els, or past befoer.

4. Tyme pa.s.sing befoer, q_uhi_lk we cal imperfectlie past, is of a thing that was doeing but not done; as, at four hoores I was wryting; Quhen you spak to me I was wryting, or did wryte, as Lillie expoundes it.

5. Tyme past els is of a thing now past, q_uhi_lk we cal perfectlie past; as, I have written.

6. Tyme past befoer is of a thing befoer done and ended; as, at four hoores, or quhen you spak to me, I had written.

7. Tyme to c.u.m is of that q_uhi_lk is not yet begun; as, at four houres I wil wryte.

OF THE POWER OF THE VERB.

Cap. 10.

1. A verb signifies being or doeing. Of being ther is onelie one, I am, and is thus varyed.

2. In the present tyme, I am, thou art, he is; we are, ye are, they are.

3. In tyme pa.s.sing befoer, I was, thou was, he was; we wer, ye wer, they wer.

4. In tyme past els, I have bene, thou hes bene, he hes bene; we have bene, ye have bene, they have bene.

5. In tyme past befoer, I had bene, thou had bene, he had bene; we had bene, ye had bene, they had bene.

6. In tyme to c.u.m, I wil be, thou wilt be, he wil be; we wil be, ye wil be, they wil be.

7. Verbes of doing are actives or pa.s.sives.

8. The active verb adheres to the person of the agent; as, Christ hath conquered hel and death.

9. The pa.s.sive verb adheres to the person of the patient; as, hel and death are conquered be Christ.

10. These our idiom conjugates onelie in tuo tymes, the tyme present and tym past; as, I wryte, I wrote; I speak, I spak; I here, I hard; I se, I saw; I fele, I felt.

11. The other differences of tyme ar expressed be the notes of the verb of being, or be the verb of being it self, and a participle; as, I was wryting; I have written; I had written; I wil wryte.

OF THE ADVERB.

Cap. 11.

1. A word impersonal is q_uhi_lk in al formes of speach keepes one face, and this is adverb or conjunction.

2. An adverb is a word adhering mast com_m_onlie w_i_th a verb with one face in al moodes, tymes, nu_m_beres and persones; as, I leve hardlie, thou leves hardlie; I did leve hardlie; I have leved hardlie; I had leved hardlie; I wil leave hardlie; leve he hardlie; G.o.d forbid he leve hardlie.

3. Our men confoundes adverbes of place, q_uhi_lk the south distinguishes as wel as the latin, and therfoer let us not shame to learne.

4. They use quher, heer, ther, for the place in q_uhi_lk; quhence, hence, thence, for the place from quhilk; quhither, hither, thither, for the place to q_uhi_lk; as, quher dwel you? quhence c.u.m you? quhither goe you?

5. They also distinguish wel in, into, and unto: in, they use with the place quher; into, with the thing quhither; and unto, for how far; as, our father, q_uhi_lk art in heavin, admit us into heavin, and lift us from the earth unto heavin.

6. Heer, becaus sum nounes incurre into adverbes, let us alsoe noat their differences.

7. First no and not. Noe is a noun, nullus in latin, and in our tongue alwayes precedes the substantive quhilk it nulleth; as, noe man, noe angle, noe G.o.d.

8. Not is an adverb, non in latin, and in our tong followes the verb that it nulleth; as, heer not, grant not; I heer not, I grant not; I wil not heer, I wil not grant.

9. Ane, in our idiom, and an. Ane is a noun of nu_m_ber, in latin unus; an a particule of determination preceding a voual, as we have said cap.

3, sect. 4.

10. Thee and the. Thee is the accusative of thou; as, thou loves G.o.d, and G.o.d loves thee. The is the determined not of a noun, of q_uhi_lk we spak cap. 3, sect. 3.

OF THE CONJUNCTION.

Cap. 12.

1. Conjunction is a word impersonal serving to cople diverse senses. And of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enu_n_ciative, and the other ratiocinative.

2. The conjunction enunciative copies the partes of a period, and are copulative, as and; connexive, as if; disjunctive, as or; or discretive, as howbe it.

3. The ratiocinative coples the partes of a ratiocination, and it either inferres the conclusion or the reason.