470 
altherbest — Germ. allerbest, 712. 
altherfirst — Germ. allererst, 10863, 9492, 12351, 
ii. 343. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF CHAUCER. 
So, alderlast, Black Knight, 503, 561. 
alderlevest, Trotlus, iii. 239. 
PRONOUNS. 
$ 45. (The forms and inflections of all, each, such, 
which, ilk, own, same, self, both, fele, few, other, are 
given with those of Adjectives, at $8 30, 32, 85, c, 
39, b, 44.) 
Personal Pronouns, and their Possessives. 
yk (S. ic) = I, occurs 3865; ich, 10037; also in 
theek (thee ik), 3862, and theech (thee ich), 
12857, 14362. 
my (S. min), sing. my lady, 1145; my counseil, 
1149; my brother, 1163, ete. 
myn aventure, 1162; farwel, my sweté, farwel, 
myn Emelye, 2782. 
myn herte may myn harmes nat Meter, 2231. 
myn lokyng, 2471. 
plur. my cheekes, 2329 ; my sorwes, 2421; myn - 
heeres, 3868; myn armes, 2249. 
absolute forms: myn be the travail, 2408, etc. ; 
so, cosyn myn, 1283, etc. 
myné ben the maladies, 2469 ; the cokkes wordes 
and not myné, 16751. 
neghébour of myné, 15387; so, yonge children 
myné, 8969 f. 
thy (S. pin), sing. 
1588, etc. 
thyn othe, 1141, etc.; thi ayel, 2479? 
thin herte, 2393, etc. 
thyn werk, 5348; thyn crowdyng, 4719; thyn 
sikernesse, 4845; thyn gentilnesse, 5273; 
thyn fortune, 16147. 
plur. thy eraftes, 2411 ;.thy songes, 17183. 
thyn floures, 1512; thyn giftes, 9937; thyn 
dayes, 4846; thin synnes, iii. 179, 180. 
thyn blisful eyghen, 5265; thyné (?) verray 
frendes, 9178. 
absolute forms: thin be the glorie, 2408; the 
fruit is thin, 1284. 
on of thiné, 2383 f. ; 
hir, hiré (S. hire, gen. and dat.): hir, 460,] _ 
3237, 3238, 3239; 16313— 16329, | 
ue gen. dat. 
sixteen cases. 
- hirá, 123, 128, 184, 461, 472, 474, | ^^*"*- 
475, etc. 
thy cosyn, 1133; thy name, 
hir thoughte ladyes oughten hir to spare, 
what from hir kynreed and hir nortelrye. 
3964, 5. 
absol. form, heres. 
mue our, 7411, 7553, 7681. 
eun ae MAR | ouré, 34, 921, 1110, 1284, etc., ete. 
ouré, sing. 6111, 6177; plur. 14248 (?). 
absol. form: this gold is nought oures, 14201. 
your, youré, { your, 7556, 7771, 7832, 7892, etc. 
(S eówer). Kee? 919, 922, 929, 1106, etc., etc. 
youré, sing. 16414? 
absol. form: I wil be youre, 13176; youre is the 
charge, 13510. [14695. 
I am yourés al, 10911; my gold is yourés, 
an old felaw of yourés, 14087 f. 
(our prayeres ben mor acceptable) than yourés, 
7496, : 
her, hir, heré (S. hira) — their: — her, hir, 7509, 
7510, 7514, 7528, 7580, 8256, 13510, etc., etc. 
heré, 11, 32, 1018, 2036, 2575, 2597, etc., ete. 
absol. form: heris, 7508. 
hem (S. him) = them: 11, 31, 2574, 7510, ete. 
The Saxon genitives min, pin, fire, eówer, are - 
declined (like adjectives) for possessive pronouns, 
but not the genitives of the third person. 
Of the above forms, some of those in ë must be 
regarded as adjectives declined. 
$ 46. In Saxon, sylf, self, same, was declined like 
an adjective both definitely and indefinitely, and 
agreed with the pronoun to which it was attached; as, 
ic sylf, or ic sylfa, Zmyself ; be me sylfum, by myself. 
The forms ic me-sylf, pú pe-self, Z myself, etc., also 
oceur. The following are the combinations of the 
| personal pronouns with self in Chaucer : — 
myself, 11735. 
myselve, 9334, 11674. 
myselven, 805, 14590. 
thyselven, 1176. 
himself, 219, 15323, 15941. 
himselve, 530 f, 537 f, 4464, 6737. 
himselven, 1479, 9714, 11513, 12912. 
