his (3 “its” is S., but much less freq.)
1.
=that one's
2H6 II. i. 131
“his”
(Ff “it,” mod.
edd. “that†) cunning .
. . that could” . . .,
Mac. IV. iii. 80
“Desire his jewels and
this other's house.”
2.
often=the genitive
inflexion “'s”
Tp. II. i. 244 [236] “the king, his son's alive”
Ham. II. ii. 520 [512] “Mars his armour” (Qq1-4
“Marses Armor,” Ff
“Mars his
Armours”); occas. joined redundantly with
“'s”
John I. i. 139
“Sir Robert's
his.”
3.
=its (very freq.)
Tp. I. ii. 295
“I will rend an oak And
peg thee in his knotty entrails.”
