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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	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 third person masculine he. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 King James Bible (Leviticus 25:5) as groweth of it owne accord.

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