person of a noun singular is determined or undetermined.

3. The determined person is noated with the, and it is determined either
be an other substantive; as, the king of Britan; or be an adjective; as,
the best king in Europ; or be a relative; as, God preserve the king
quhom he hath geven us.

4. The undetermined noun is noated with an befoer a voual; as, an ald
man sould be wyse; and with a befoer a consonant; as, a father sould
com_m_and his son.

OF THE GENDER OF A NOUN.

Cap. 4.

1. Gender is the affection of a noun for distinction of sex.

2. Sex is a distinction of a noun be male and female, and these are
distinguished the one from the other, or both from thinges without sex.

3. The one is distinguished from the other be he and she.

4. He is the noat of the male; as, he is a gud judge; he is a wyse man;
he is a speedie horse; he is a crouse cock; he is a fat wether.

5. She is the noate of the femal sex; as, she is a chast matron; she is
a stud meer; she is a fat hen; she is a milk cowe.

6. Nounes that want sex are noated with it; as, it is a tale tree; it is
a sueet aple; it is a hard flint; it is a faer day; it is a foul way.

7. In the plural number they are not distinguished; as, they are honest
men; they are vertueouse ladies; they are highe montanes.

OF THE CASE OF THE NOUN.

Cap. 5.

1. Case is an affection of a noun for distinction of person; as, the
corner stone fel on me; stone is the nominative case. The corner of a
stone hurt me; stone is the genitive case. Quhat can you doe to a stone;
stone is the dative case. He brak the stones; it is the accusative case.
Quhy standes thou stone; it is the vocative. And he hurt me with a
stone; it is the ablative case.

2. This difference we declyne, not as doth the latines and greekes, be
terminationes, but with noates, after the maner of the hebrues, quhilk
they cal particles.

3. The nominative hath no other noat but the particle of determination;
as, the peple is a beast with manie heades; a horse serves man to manie
uses; men in auctoritie sould be lanternes of light.

4. Our genitive is alwayes joyned with an other noun, and is noated with
of, or s.

5. With of, it followes the noun quhar w_i_th it is joined; as, the
house of a good man is wel governed.

6. With s it preceedes the word quherof it is governed, and s is devyded
from it with an apostrophus; as, a gud man's house is wel governed.

7. This s sum haldes