[Rudimenta grammatices]

The construction of verbes actiues.

AMo is a verbe actiue. why so? For in his firste person singuler, he endeth in o: and aboue his nominatiue may receyue this question, what thynge, thys wyse. what thyng loue I, teche I, eare I, or buylde I? Quid vel quā rem amo, doceo, aro, aedifico ego?

¶And all suche verbes, except a certayn that be set out amonge neuters, beynge actyues, maye receyue passiue voyce, whan soeuer the said question is tur∣ned in to the nominatyue case, the englysshe of the actiue in to the passyue, and the doer into the abla∣tiue case with a preposicion, this wyse. what thyng is loued, taught, eared, or buylded of me? Quid uel

quae ••es amatur, docetur, aratur, vel aedificat a me? ¶There be except, as receyuyng no passyue voyce, volo, nolo, malo, doleo, possum, odi, memini. and certayn called defectiues of the .iij. person. as decet with a fewe other. to the whiche, though they be a∣cti••es, vse haue gyuen no passiues: as facio with his compoūdes, that kepe a: as floccifacio, paruifacio, whose passyues be supplied by fio, and compoundes offio•• as stuperfio, paruifio.

¶Amo studiosos. why is studiosos the accusatiue case? For al verhes actiues be construed with an ac∣cusatiue case. as doceo lras. aro terrā. aedifico aedem.

¶Cupio equitare. why is equitare the infinitiue mode after cupio? For many actiues, in stede of the accusatiue case, may haue the infinitiue mode. As ••upio, volo, nolo, malo, propono, paro, affirmo, ne∣go, incipio, censeo, sentio, iudico, indico, dico, pu∣••••, existimo, scio, timeo, audeo, suadeo, iubeo, im∣pero, opto, disco, debeo, and other, that haue lyke signification, to any of these, and som of theyr pas∣syues. as Volo discere. Nolo te ire. Puto te audisse. Cogoradesse.