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The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated

Note 50 — Chapter V · OF THE VERB.

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The words did, hast, hath, has, had, shall, wilt, are evidently, as Wallis observes, contracted for doed, haveth, haves, haved, shall’st, will’st.

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