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The Sermons which thou readest in the Acts of the Apostles, and all that the Apostles preached, were no doubt preached in the mother tongue. Why then might they not be written in the mother tongue? As if one of us preach a good sermon, why may it not be written? Saint Hierome also translated the Bible into his mother tongue: Why may not we also? They will say it can not be translated into our tongue it is so rude. It is not so rude as they are false liars. For the Greek tongue agreeth more with the English then with the Latin. And the properties of the ¹Hebrew tongue agreeth a thousand times more with the English, then with the Latin. The manner of speaking is both one, so that in a thousand places thou needest not but to translate it into the English, word for word, when thou must seek a compass in the Latin, and yet shalt have much work to translate it welfavouredly, so that it have the same grace & sweetness, sense & pure understanding with it in the Latin, & as it hath in the Hebrew. A thousand parts better may it be translated into the English, than into the Latin. Yea, and except my memory fail me, and that I have forgotten what I red when I was a child, thou shalt find in the English chronicle, how that king Athelstan caused ²the holy Scripture to be translated into the tongue that then was in England, and how the Prelates exhorted him thereunto.

The Sermons which thou readest in the Actes of the Apostles, and all that the Apostles preached, were no doubt preached in the mother tongue. Why then might they not be written in the mother tounge? As if one of vs preach a good sermon, why may it not be written? Saint Hierome also translated the Bible into his mother tounge: Why may not we also? They will say it can not be translated into our tounge it is so rude. It is not so rude as they are false lyers. For the Greeke tounge agreeth more with the English then wyth the Latin. And the properties of the ¹Hebrue tounge agreeth a thousand tymes more wyth the Englishe, then wyth the Latyn. The maner of speaking is both one, so that in a thousand places thou needest not but to trāslate it into the English, worde for worde, when thou must seeke a compasse in the Latin, and yet shalt haue much worke to translate it welfauouredly, so that it haue the same grace & swetenesse, sence & pure vnderstanding with it in the Latin, & as it hath in the Hebrue. A thousand partes better maye it be translated into the English, thē into the Latin. Yea, and except my memory fayle me, and that I haue forgotten what I red whē I was a childe, thou shalt finde in the Englishe cronicle, how that kyng Adelstone caused