Caxton's Blanchardyn and Eglantine, c. 1489 : from Lord Spencer's unique imperfect copy, completed by the original French and the second English version of 1595

§ 24. Imperative Mood.

1. The Imperative is very often followed by the personal pronoun. Instances abound. Cf. p. xiii.

2. Here and there the imperative seems to be represented by the Indicative, as the arrangement of words suggests:—

But wel ye knowe that he was not hadde sore ferre from the kynge his fadre, Blanchardyn, 13/1 (original: sachiez); A, fayr damoysels, said Amand, ye recommaunde unto la Beale Isoude, Morte Darthur, 436/16.

This occurs very often in the Story of Genesis and Exodus, as in the Cursor Mundi (frequent):—

'Almigtin louerd, hegest kinge,ðu giue me seli timinge.'

—Story, 31.

'Adam, ðhu knowe eue ðin wif,'

ibid. 397. Cf. 737, 1492, 2072.

The Oriel Text of the Book of Curtesye has one instance:—

'As ye be commandyd, so ye do algate.'

120.

Hill and Caxton have: 'so do ye algate.'