[22]See, passim, the prints of Fox. All the details which follow are from biographies. See those of Cromwell, by Carlyle, of Fox the Quaker, of Bunyan, and the trials reported at length by Fox.
[23]Froude, II. 33: "The bishops said in 1529, 'In the crime of heresy, thanked be God there hath no notable person fallen in our time.'"
[24]In 1536. Strype's "Memorials," appendix. Froude, III. ch. 12.
[25]Coverdale. Froude, III. 81.
[26]1549. Tyndale's translation.
[27]An expression of Stendhal's; it was his general impression.
[28]The time of which M. Taine speaks and the translation of Tyndale precede by at least fifty years the appearance of "Macbeth" (1606). Shakespeare's audience read the present authorized translation.—Tr.
[29]See Lemaistre de Sacy's French translation of the Bible, so slightly biblical.
[30]See Ewald, "Geschichte des Volks Israel," his apostrophe to the third writer of the Pentateuch, "Erhabener Geist," etc.
[31]See Psalm CIV. in Luther's admirable translation and in the English translation.