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Luther's protest in the 16th Century was but the echo of Wickliffe's in the 14th, against the tyranny of a Church from which all spiritual life had departed, and which in its decay tightened its grasp upon the very things which its founder put "behind Him" in the temptation on the mountain, and aimed at becoming a temporal despotism.
The Romaunt of the Rose, is a translation from the French: this poem was begun by William de Lerris, and continued by John de Meun, both famous French poets; it seems to have been translated about the time of the rise of Wickliffe's Opinions, it consisting of violent invectives against religious orders.
Wickliffe's face mirrored alarm. "Let me have it," he demanded. "You shouldn't treat such matters lightly. Men are assassinated in New York. I'll refer it to the police." Horton laughed. "That would be in the nature of referring back, wouldn't it? I fancy it came from some one not so remote from police sympathy." "What are you going to do about it?" "I'm going to stay put.
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