[130] _Lives of St. Augustine and St. Gilbert_, _Prologue_. [131] Oxford, Clarendon Press, _Prohemium_. [132] In _Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden_. [133] _Minor Poems of the Vernon MS._, _De Festo Corporis Christi_, l. 170. [134] _Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden_, _St. Bernard_, ll. 943-4. [135] _Ibid._, _Erasmus_, l. 41. [136] _Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge_, _St. Katherine_, p. 243, l. 451. [137] _Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden_, _Christine_, ll. 489-90. [138] _Ibid._, _St. Augustine_, ll. 1137-40. [139] _Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden_, _St. Augustine_, ll. 43, 57-8, 128. [140] Ll. 169-70, 785-6, 2475-6. [141] _Op. cit._, _Prohemium_. [142] _Altenglische Legenden_, _Geburt Jesu_, ll. 493, 527, 715, etc. [143] _Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge_, _Ypotis_, ll. 613-16. [144] _Osbern Bokenam's Legenden, St. Margaret_, ll. 84-5. [145] _Mary Magdalen_, ll. 245-8. [146] _St. Agnes_, ll. 13-14. [147] _Op. cit._, _St. Anne_, ll. 209-14. [148] E.E.T.S., l. 382. [149] E.E.T.S., ll. 633-6. [150] E.E.T.S., p. 146, l. 1. [151] _Op. cit._, pp. 100, 115, 300. [152] _Life of St. Gilbert_, pp. 103, 135. 141. [153] _Op. cit._, _St. Katherine_, l. 49. [154] Preface. II. THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE II THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE The English Bible took its shape under unusual conditions, which had their share in the excellence of the final result. Appealing, as it did, to all classes, from the scholar, alert for controversial detail, to the unlearned layman, concerned only for his soul's welfare, it had its growth in the vital atmosphere of strong intellectual and spiritual activity. It was not enough that it should bear the test of the scholar's criticism; it must also reach the understanding of Tyndale's "boy that driveth the plough," demands difficult of satisfaction, but conducive theoretically to a fine development of the art of translation. To attain scholarly accuracy combined with practical intelligibility was, then, the task of the translator.