And a part of you may lie shut up in my body.
Or rather _may_ it so lie! How forcibly a sucking pig hanging up outside
a pork-butcher's shop always recals this beautiful line of Ovid's to the
mind!
Meus, mine, tuus, thine, suus, his own (Cocknicè his'n), noster, ours,
vester, yours, are used when action, or the possession of a thing is
signified; as
Qui bona quæ non sunt sua furtim subripit, ille
Tempore quo capitur, carcere clausus erit:
Him as prigs wot isn 't his'n,
Ven he's cotch'd 'll go to pris'n.
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These possessive pronouns, meus, tuus, suus, noster, and vester, take
after them these genitive cases,-- ipsius, of himself, solius, of him
alone, unius, of one, duorum, of two, trium, of three, &c., omnium, of
all, plurium, of more, paucorum, of few, cujusque, of every one, and
also the genitive cases of participles, which are referred to the
primitive word understood; as
Meis unius impensis pocula sex exhausi: