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Personal pronouns in Early Modern English
		Nominative	Objective	Genitive	Possessive
1st Person	singular	I	me	my / mine^[1]	mine
1st Person	plural	we	us	our	ours
2nd Person	singular informal	thou	thee	thy / thine^[1]	thine
2nd Person	plural or formal singular	ye	you	your	yours
3rd Person	singular	he / she / it	him / her / it	his / her / his (it)^[2]	his / hers / his^[2]
3rd Person	plural	they	them	their / theyr^[3]	theirs

^a ^b The possessive forms were used as genitives before words beginning with a vowel sound and letter h (e.g. thine eyes, mine heire). Otherwise, "my" and "thy" is attributive (my/thy goods) and "mine" and "thine" are predicative (they are mine/thine). Shakespeare pokes fun at this custom with an archaic plural for eyes when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
^a ^b From the early Early Modern English period up until the 17th century, his was the possessive of the third person neuter it as well as of the 3rd person masculine he. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 King James Bible (Leviticus 25:5) as groweth of it owne accord.
Theyr was sometimes used as the genitive form of they. It appears in the famous soliloquy To be, or not to be in the Second Quarto of Hamlet by William Shakespeare as theyr currents.

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 # {{note label|thine|thine:1|a}}{{note label|thine|thine:2|b}}The possessive forms were used as genitives before words beginning with a [[vowel]] sound and letter ''h'' (e.g. ''thine eyes'', ''mine heire''). Otherwise, "my" and "thy" is attributive ''(my/thy goods)'' and "mine" and "thine" are predicative ''(they are mine/thine)''. Shakespeare pokes fun at this custom with an archaic plural for ''eyes'' when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
-# {{note label|its|its:1|a}}{{note label|its|its:2|b}}From the early [[Early Modern English]] period up until the 17th century, ''his'' was the possessive of the third person neuter ''it'' as well as of the 3rd person masculine ''he''. Later, the [[neologism]] ''[[it (pronoun)|its]]'' became common.
+# {{note label|its|its:1|a}}{{note label|its|its:2|b}}From the early [[Early Modern English]] period up until the 17th century, ''his'' was the possessive of the third person neuter ''it'' as well as of the 3rd person masculine ''he''. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 [[King James Bible]] (Leviticus 25:5) as ''groweth of it owne accord''.
-# {{note label|theyr}}''Theyr'' was sometimes used as the genitive form of ''they''. "Theyr" appears in the famous soliloquy [[To be, or not to be]] in the Second Quarto of [[Hamlet]] by 	William Shakespeare as ''theyr currents''.
+# {{note label|theyr}}''Theyr'' was sometimes used as the genitive form of ''they''. It appears in the famous soliloquy [[To be, or not to be]] in the Second Quarto of [[Hamlet]] by William Shakespeare as ''theyr currents''.
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