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Section II. Of Number and Person

Verbs have two numbers, the Singular and the Plural: as, "I fiddle, we fiddle," &c.

In each number there are three persons; as,

SINGULAR. PLURAL.

First Person I love We love.

Second Person Thou lovest Ye or you love.

Third Person He loves They love.

What a deal there is in every Grammar about love! Here the following Lines, by a Young Lady, (now no more,) addressed to Lindley Murray, deserves to be recorded:—

"Oh, Murray! fatal name to me,
Thy burning page with tears is wet;
Since first 'to love' I learned of thee,
Teach me, ah! teach me to forget!'"