Upon the following Verbs three Roots attend;
And from the fecond Roots the third defcend.

Lay, laid and lain; † brake, broken, broke from break;
So Spake, Spoke, Spoken all defcend from Speak.

Hove and boven are of doubtful Authority.

Steal, stole, and stolen ; † bare, bore, børn from bear ; + Share, bore, fhorn, tfware, fwore, favorn from fhear and fear;

† Tare, tore, torn, † ware, wore, warn, from tear

and wear.

+Clave, cleft, and cloven, are the Roots from cleave;

Hove, heaved, hoven, all descend from beave.

Wove, weaved, woven, are deduc'd from weave.
Swell, fwell'd, and † swollen ; tread, wode, trodden,
trod;

Get, † gat, got, gotten; † Seeth, †Seethed, and † fod,
And Sodden; lie, lay, lain ; ftride, firode, and ftrid,
And ftridden; hide in hidden forms and bid :
So flide, flid, flidden; ride, rode, ridden, rid
Bite, bit and bitten; write, writ, written, wrote ;
Choofe, chofe and chofen; fhoot, fhotten and shot.

THE FOURTH CLASS of irregular Verbs, in which the third or Perfect Root is the fame with the first or Imperfect Root, whilft the fecond Root is different. The fimple Verbs of this Clafs are but two, viz.

Come, came, come; run, ran, run: But they have feveral Compounds; as, become, overcome, out-run, over-run, &c.

In come, came, come; and run, ran, run; the Word which is the firft Root alfo is the third.

THE FIFTH CLASS of irregular Verbs, in which the third or Perfect Root is derived from the firft or Imperfect Root. Twenty-eight in Number.

Dare,

The following Verbs are of this fifth Clafs, but are placed by themfelves, on Account of the Analogy by which the most of them form their fecond or Indefinite Root. Thefe are twelve in Number.

Know, knew, known
Throw, threw, thrown
Show, showed, shown

or,

Shew, fhewed, fhewn

Verbs of the following Clafs, by fettled Use,
From their firft Radical the third deduce.

Dare, dared, durft; forfaken and for fook
Come from forfake; so take, taken and took.
Wake, waked, woke, and waken; so awake;
Grave, graved, graven ; fall, fell, fallen take,
Eat, eat, and eaten; beat, beaten, and beat;
So tfweaten, Sweat and fweated come from fweat.
Bid, bad, bid, bidden; fitten, fat from fit;
So fpat, Spit, Spitted are derived from Spit.
Smite, fmote and smitten; rise, arise, have rose
And rifen; give in gave and given shows

Its Roots. But riv'd and riven come from rive;
Drave, drove and driven, are the Roots from drive.
Thus +brive has + prove and † friven; frive

has ftrove

And striven; likewise thrive, thriven and throve.
Hold, held and holden; do has did and done;
And go has went from † wend and likewife gone.
Burften from burft, or else its Roots alike;
Help, helpt and holpen; ftricken, ftruck from ftrike.
Slay, flew and flain; see, saw and seen; fly, flew
And flown; whilft draw has Roots in drawn and drew.
Saw, fawed, fawn; hew, hewed, hewn ; and show
Showed and fhown; but blow, crow, grow, know,
throw,

Of Roots which end in ew and own allow.

When these Roots are known, the Formation of the Tenfes of the feveral Verbs is very easy.

For

For the Firft or Imperfect Root is ufed in the Active Voice in the following Tenfes, viz.

Infinitive Mood.

Prefent and Future.

Indicative Mood.

Prefent and First Future, and the First Preterite when formed by the Sign did.

Imperative.

Prefent.

Potential.

Present and First Indefinite.

Subjunctive.

Prefent.

The Second or Indefinite Root is only used in the Firft Preterite of the Indicative Mood when fimple, or formed without the Sign did.

All the other Tenfes are formed by the Third or Perfeat Root, viz.

In the Infinitive Mood.

The Preterite and past Participle.

Indicative.

The Second Preterite, Pluperfect, and Second Future.

Potential