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 130 GRAMMAR occurs as early as Jordan's Drama of The Creation (e.g. ny wrugaf, 1. 1662) it is generally written without the final consonants of the verb, which, as in the im- perfect tense of the verb to be, seem to coalesce with the initials of the pronouns. One finds the forms rig a vee, rigga vee, rigon ny, rigo why, rig an jy, these being preceded by adverbs, conjunctions, etc., such as na, pan, etc., which put the initial in the second state, and the w being almost silent is omitted. The form wruge( = wriga), occurs in Origo Mundi, 2250, and Passio Christi, 930, for the first person singular, preceded by fan, when. The same word occurs for the third person in O. M. 423, and in the form wrega in Jordan's Creation, 2216. This is wrig with the added a (see p. 120). A form of the third person singular of this tense, ros (for wros, second state of gwros}, may possibly be found in the Ordinalia and in St. Meriasek, in the expression, re Thu am ros, by God who made me. But it is more probably the preterite of ry, to give, as it occurs also in the phrase re'n arluth dhen beys am ros, by the Lord who gave me to the world. Wraze ( = wres, cf. Breton, greaz) occurs in Gen. iii. 7. (b). Impersonal. Mi a wrig, ti a wrig, etc. IV. THE PLUPERFECT OR CONDITIONAL TENSE, / had or would have done. (a). Inflected. Singular. Plural. 1. gwressen (older form gwrussen). i. gwressen. 2. gwresses. 2. gwresseugh. 3. gwressa. 3. gwressens. (b). Impersonal. Mi a wressa, ti a wressa, etc.