superlative, if the first may be called a degre.

4. The positive is the first position of the noun; as, soft, hard;
quhyte, blak; hoat, cald.

5. The comparative excedes the positive be more, and is formed of the
positive be adding er; as, softer, harder; quhiter, blaker; hoater,
calder.

6. The superlative excedes the positive be most, and is formed of the
positive be adding est; as, softest, hardest; quhytest, blakest;
hoatest, caldest.




OF THE VERB’S PERSON AND NUMBER.

Cap. 7.


1. This for the noun. The verb is a word of al persones declyned with
mood and tyme; as, I wryte, thou wrytes, he wrytes.

2. We declyne not the persones and nu_m_beres of the verb, as doth the
latine, but noat them be the person of the noun.

3. They are noated w_i_th I, thou, and he in the singular number; we,
ye, and they in the plural.