Whatever happen, the effects must needes be good."-- STRICKLAND: _Bucke's Classical Gram._, p.

149.
24.

_Reign of Charles I, 1648 to 1625 .-- Example from Ben Jonson's Grammar, written about 1634; but the orthography is more modern_.
"The second and third person singular of the present are made of the first, by adding _est_ and _eth_; which last is sometimes shortened into _s_.

It seemeth to have been poetical licence which first introduced this abbreviation of the third person into use; but our best grammarians have condemned it upon some occasions, though perhaps not to be absolutely banished the common and familiar style." "The persons plural keep the termination of the first person singular.

In former times, till about the reign of Henry the eighth, they were wont to be formed by adding _en_; thus, _loven, sayen, complainen_.