2. "He was, to weet, a little roguish page,
Save sleep and play, who minded nought at all."
—Id.
3. "Not one eftsoons in view was to be found."
—Id.
4. "To number up the thousands dwelling here,
An useless were, and eke an endless task."
—Id.
5. "Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy."
—Id.
6. "But these I passen by with nameless numbers moe."
—Id.
THE END OF APPENDIX FOURTH
INDEX TO THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH GRAMMARS.
[Asterism] In the following Index, the page of the Grammar is directly referred to: Obs. or N. before a numeral, stands for Observation or Observations, or for Note or Notes of the text: R. after a reference, stands for RULE. The small letter n., with an asterisk or other mark affixed to it, relates to a footnote with such mark in the Grammar. Occasionally, t., m., or b., or u., or l., accompanies a reference, to indicate the top, middle, or bottom, or the upper or the lower half, of the page referred to. Few abbreviations are employed beyond those of the ordinary grammatical terms. The Index is not intended to supersede the use of the Table of Contents, which stands after the Preface. It is occupied wholly with the matter of the Grammar proper; hence there are in it no references to the Introduction Historical and Critical, which precedes the didactic portion of the work. In the Table before-mentioned must be sought the general division of English grammar, and matters pertaining to praxis, to examination, and to the writing of exercises.
A.
A, lett., names itself
—its plur.
—sounds properly its own
—numb. of sounds pertaining to, orthoëpists differ concerning
—diphthongs beginning with,
—triphth. do.
—its true sound to be carefully preserved at end of words,
A, as prep, or prefix
—before part, in ing.
A and an, in Gr. derivatives.
A or an, art., see An, A