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Stand, food; hang, hung, and hang'd; but lead has led,

Read, Read; Spread, spread; bleed, bled; and breed
has bred,

While Feed and Speed have Roots in fed and fped.
Meet, met; bide and abide in bode; bind, bound;
Find, grind, and wind have found, and ground, and
wound,

Digged and dug, as Roots from dig are found.
Stick, ftuck; fwim, †swam and swum; † flang, flung
from fling;

So cling, ring, fing, fling, Spring, fting, firing, fwing,

wring,

Have Roots in tang, and ung; began, begun

Come from begin So fpin has +Span and Spun;
Shine, fhined, fhone; and win has † wan and won.
Ort drank or drunk appear as Roots from drink,
And of like Forms from fink, flink, shrink and stink.
In former Times † thrufted and thruften came
From thrust; but now its Roots are all the fame.

Second

Second Sort of the fecond Clafs of irregular Verbs, in which the fecond and third Roots are derived from the

fitft, by changing the final d into t. Thefe Verbs are five in Number.

Build, built, built

Lend, lent, lent

Rend, rent, rent

Send, fent, fent
Spend, spent, spent

Build, lend, rend, fend, and spend, their final d
In both their other Roots change to a t.

Third Sort of the fecond Clafs, in which the intermediate Vowels are changed; or, if not changed into others, are altered in Sound, and the Letter d or t is likewife added; or in which fome Confonants in the final Syllable are changed to á d. The Verbs of this Sort are Twenty-one in Number.

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Make, made; have, had ; pay, paid; say, faid ; leave, left;

Dream, dreamt; mean, meant; reave and bereave have

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reft.

Tell, told; fell, fold; deal forms its Roots in dealt;
And flee has fled; and feel has Roots in felt.
Crept, kept, and flept, proceed from creep, keep, sleep,
And fwept and wept descend from sweep and weep:
Clothe, cloth'd and clad; fhoe, fhoe'd and shod becomes,
And lofe in loft its Radicals affumes.

The fourth Sort of the fecond Clafs, in which the fecond and third Roots are both formed from the first by aght, the u being the latter Vowel of a Diphthong. The Verbs of this Sort are Eight in Number.

-eached, -eached, F-ight, f-ought, f-ought.

Teach-t -aught, -aught

Bef-eech, bef-ought, bef

ought

S-eek, fought, fought

Br-ing, br-ought, br-ought

Th-ink, th-ought, th-ought -orked,

Work w

-rought,

B-uy, b-ought, b-ought

-orked,

W

-rought

Teach, taught; befeech, befeeched, and besought ;
Seek, fought; buy, bought; fight, fought; and bring
has brought,

And think has thought, and work has work'd and
wrought.

THE THIRD CLASS of irregular Verbs, in which the third or Perfect Root is derived from the second or Indefinite Root. The Verbs of this Clafs are Twenty-fivs in Number.

L-ay,

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