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Purvey's revision was somewhat freer and more idiomatic. In the reigns of Henry IV. and V. it was forbidden to read or to have any of Wiclif's writings. Such of them as could be seized were publicly burned. In spite of this, copies of his Bible circulated secretly in great numbers. Forshall and Madden, in their great edition , enumerate one hundred and fifty MSS. which had been consulted by them.
About eight years after its completion the whole was revised by Richard Purvey, his curate and intimate friend, whose manuscript is still in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. Purvey's preface is a most interesting old document, and shows not only that he was deeply in earnest about his work, but that he thoroughly understood the intellectual and moral conditions necessary for its success.
Perrote listened in vain for any answer. Psalm seventy-two, verses 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 18, 19; Hereford and Purvey's version, 1381-8. Romans six, verse 16; Wycliffe's version, 1382. "Where we disavow Being keeper to our brother, we're his Cain." Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "Hylton, thou art weary gear!" "What ails me?" "What ails thee, forsooth? Marry, but that's as good a jest as I heard this year!
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