Note 147 — III

This last very curious usage, which served as a kind of stepping-stone to ‘its’, and of which another example occurs in the Geneva Version (Acts xii. 10), and three or four in Shakespeare, has been abundantly illustrated by those who have lately written on the early history of the word ‘its’; thus see Craik, On the English of Shakespeare, p. 91; Marsh, Manual of the English Language (Eng. Edit.), p. 278; Transactions of the Philological Society, vol. 1. p. 280; and my book On the Authorized Version of the New Testament, p. 59.