P. 6. _The translation of the Bible_. The first important 16th century translation of the Bible is William Tyndale's version of the New Testament (1525) and of the Pentateuch (1530). The complete translations are those of Miles Coverdale (1535), the Great Bible (1539), the Geneva or Breeches Bible (1557), the Bishop's Bible (1568), and the Rheims-Douay Bible--the New Testament (1582) and the Old Testament (1609-1610). Finally came the Authorized Version in 1611. P. 8. _penetrable stuff_. "Hamlet," iii, 4, 36. _his washing_, etc. St. John, xiii. _above all art_, etc. Cf. Pope's "Epistle to the Earl of Oxford": "Above all Pain, all Passion, and all Pride." _My peace_. St. John, xiv, 27. _they should love_. Ibid., xv, 12. _Woman, behold_. Ibid., xix, 26. _his treatment of the woman_. Ibid., viii, 1-12. _the woman who poured precious ointment_. St. Matthew, xxvi, 6-13; St. Mark, xiv, 3-9. _his discourse with the disciples_. St. Luke, xxiv, 13-31. _his Sermon on the Mount_. St. Matthew, v-vii. _parable of the Good Samaritan and of the Prodigal Son_. St. Luke, x, 25-37; xv, 11-32. P. 9. _Who is our neighbour_. Ibid., x, 29. _to the Jews_, etc. I Corinthians, i, 23. P. 10. _Soft as sinews_. "Hamlet," iii, 3. 71. _The best of men_. Dekker, "The Honest Whore," Part I, v, 2, sub fin. P. 11. _Tasso by Fairfax_. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), an Italian poet whose great epic, the "Gerusalemme Liberata," was finished in 1574. The English translation by Edward Fairfax was published in 1600 as "Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Jerusalem." _Ariosto by Harrington_. Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533), whose romantic epic, "Orlando Furioso," was first published in 1516, and translated by Sir John Harrington in 1591. _Homer and Hesiod by Chapman_. George Chapman (1559?-1634), poet and dramatist, published a complete translation of the "Iliad" in 1611, of the "Odyssey" in 1614, of Homer's "Battle of Frogs and Mice" in 1624, and of "The Georgicks of Hesiod" in 1618. _Virgil_. A complete English translation of the "AEneid" was made by Gavin Douglas, a Scottish poet (1474?-1522), and first printed in London in 1553. There was a translation of the second and fourth books into blank verse by the Earl of Surrey, published in 1557, but the one most in use was by Thomas Phaer (1510?-1560), which appeared incompletely in 1558 and 1562 and was completed by Thomas Twyne in 1583. _Ovid_. There were a number of translators of Ovid during this period, chief of whom was Arthur Golding, whose version of the "Metamorphoses" appeared in 1565 and 1567. "The Heroides" were translated by George Turberville in 1567. _Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch_. The chief work of Plutarch, a Greek writer of the first century, is the "Parallel Lives," which was translated into French by Jacques Amyot in 1559. Sir Thomas North's translation of Amyot's version in 1579 was the most popular and influential of all Elizabethan translations.