For My Lady's Heart (52 page)

There are only two tenses, past and present. The past tense follows the
same general rules:
I heard. Thou heardest. He heard. They hearden.

There are of course many irregularities and complications, and grammar
was never my strong point, so I’ll recommend
A Book of Middle English
by J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre for those who’d like to take a
further peek into the grammatical rules and a more extensive dictionary of
Middle English.

When the characters in
For My Lady’s Heart
are not speaking
Middle English, I used simpler conventions. When they are speaking French,
the universal court language of the time, I generally used the informal and
polite forms of address,
thou
and
ye.
When the characters
are speaking Italian between themselves, I used modern grammar.

Laura Kinsale
, a former geologist, is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Shadow and the Star, Seize the Fire, The
Prince of Midnight, Flowers from the Storm, The Dream Hunter,
and
Shadowheart,
the upcoming sequel to
For My Lady’s Heart.
She
and her husband divide their time between New Mexico and Texas.

Visit her website at www.laurakinsale.com.

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FOR MY LADY’S HEART

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