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Re: Layeth und Smacketh
How now, good my sir,
That which thou hast scribed is Middle English and/or Elizabethan English. ( I would clepe thee ‘you,’ but the internet doth presume intimate address). Verily, the forms are third person singular, simple present. Wouldst fain see sample declensions, thou needst but cast thine eye below.
I go
thou goest
he/she/it goeth
we go
you go
they go
I make
thou makest
he/she/it maketh
we make
you make
they make
Elizabethan english liveth yet today in the King Jame’s Bible and the works of Shakespeare..
PSALM 23
1 The Lord is my shepherd; I
shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures: he leadeth me beside
the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he
leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil: for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort
me.
5 Thou preparest a table before
me in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil; my
cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days of my
life: and I will dwell in the house
of the Lord for ever.
Wouldst find other examples, thou must needs but search the wondrous internet with “elizabethan english” and “King James Bible.”.
But soft! In modern times ‘tis a custom more honour'd in the breach than the observance. Today, churlish whoresons do confuse the eye and addle the brain with swinish phrase waxing desparate with imagination - they use the endings -st and -th when such are not meet (I goeth, we goest) and thus do they err whilst they essay to write in a manner Shakespearean. Do not lend thy serious hearing to them.
In Shakespeare one findeth a mingling of the endings of -th and -s. The elizabethan period must perforce be a time wherein the english language changeth still from middle english. Belike a serious student of Anglistik will upon us shine the sun off his knowledge.
fare-thee-well Jim