THE ACTIVE INFINITIVE. 
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1085 E d : obbe hwilce gerihtse he ahte to habbanne to xii monbum. — lb. 266 m , 
1140 E b : Be eorl . . . benam him al bset he ahte to hauen (sic!). 
Laws 30, vElfred, Intr., c. 12 a : nage he hie ut on elbeodig folc to bebycgganne. 
— Ib. 48, Alfred, c. 2: age he breora nihta fierst him to gebeorganne (or final?). 
— Ib. 116, Ine, c. 62: nah bonne self nane wiht to gesellanne beforan ceape. — 
Ib. 228, III ^Ethelred, c. 3: hlafordes gifu, be he on riht age to gifanne. — Ib. 
284, I. Cnut, c. 4, § 1 : understande se be cunne, my cel is 7 msere bset sacerd 
ah to donne folce to bearfe. — Ib. 304, I Cnut, c. 22 , § 5 a : Forbam he nah setter 
forbsibe Cristenra manna gemanan ne on gehalgedan lictune to restene. — Ib. 
304, I Cnut, c. 22 , § 5 b : ne he nah bses halgan husles to onfonne her on life. — 
Ib. 304, I Cnut, c. 22 , § 6 : ne he nah mid rihte obres mannes to onfonne set 
fulluhte. — Ib. 328, II Cnut, c. 24, § 3: bset nan man hit nah to geahnianne 
rabost binga. — Ib. 376, Duns., c. 6 : nah naber to farenne ne Wilisc mon on 
^Englisc land ne iEnglisc etc. — Ib. 396, Swerian, c. 3, § 3: swa hit me se 
sealde, be hit to syllanne agte. — Ib. 400, Becwseb, c. 2 : swa hit se sealde, be to 
syllanne ahte. — Ib. 442, Wifmannes Beweddung, Inscr., MS. B: Hu man mseden 
weddian sceal: 7 hwylce forewarde bser aghon to beonne. — Ib. 477, Episcopus, 
c. 2 b : bset heora selc wite, . . . eac hwset hy woruldmannum agan to beodanne. 
Wcerf. 241.18: bset se be agymeleasede, bset he heolde his lichaman forhsefed- 
nesse, nahte sona na ma to sprecenne bses wundorlican msegnes word buton lich- 
amlicre tungan = 296 A 2 : ut qui carnis continentiam servare neglexerat, sine 
lingua carnea non haberet verba virtutis. 
A. S. Horn. & L. S. II.: 15.252: Hwanan wearb eow, bset ge mihton ahan 
(sic!) godes beowes to beswicenne = 216.281: Quis te genuit, vel quis vobis 
prsecepit in sancta opera insidiari ? 
Wulf. 39.17: he ne . . . nah mid rihte seniges mannes set fulluhte to onfonne 
ne set bisceopes handa. — Ib. 123.2: forbam nah senig man mid rihte tofullianne 
hsebenne man. — Ib. 135.31: bset se deofol eow nage naht on to bestelenne on 
bam ytemestan dsege. — Ib. 238.2: nan man nah to . . . cyrican ne to . . . 
weofode idelhende to cumene. — Ib. 279.19: witodlice nah man on senigne timan 
... set godes huse unnyt to donne. — Ib. 290.18: bu ahst tofyllenne bine seofen 
tidsangas. — Ib. 292.2: hu ge agan her on life rihtlice to libbanne. — Ib. 294.20, 
24: bset man ah to forganne ealle fulnyssa; . . . selc gemot senig mann to 
fremmanne. — Ib. 294.25, 26 a : ac man ah cyrican and haligdom to secanne and 
bser hine georne inne to gebiddanne and mid eadmodnysse hlystan (sic!). — Ib. 
294.30 a : bset man ah seoce men to geneosianne and deade bebyrian (sic!), 
earmingas . . . fedan (sic!) and scrydan (sic!). — Ib. 295.5: man ah on bam 
dsege hine to gesibsumianne. — Ib. 302.5: ne he nah mid rihte seniges mannes 
set fulluhte to onfonne ne set bisceopes handum. — Ib. 307.27: ne he nah mid 
rihte obres mannes to onfonne set fulluhte. 
cunnan, know, can: 
Ex. 437: He ab swereb, engla beoden, . . . bset bines cynnes and cneow- 
maga, randwiggendra rim ne cunnon yldo ofer eorban ealle crsefte to gesecgenne 
sobum wordum, nymbe etc. [In his edition of Exodus and Daniel, Professor 
F. A. Blackburn comments as follows on this passage: “ The object of cunnon 
is rim, 1 know not the number ... to tell it/ i. e. will not be able to count thy 
descendants, to gesecgenne cannot be joined directly to cunnon, ‘ can tell/ 
since cunnan in this sense takes the pure infin., not the phrasal form.” Simi¬ 
larly Dr. Riggert, l. c., p. 75, expresses himself: “In loser Beziehung zum 
