For these reasons and other, with common charity to save all men in our realm which God would have saved, a simple creature hath translated the Bible out of Latin into English. First this simple creature had much travail, with divers fellows and helpers, to gather many old Bibles, and other doctors and common glosses, and to make one Latin Bible some deal true; and then to study it anew, the text with the gloss and other doctors as he might get, and especially Lyra on the Old Testament, that helped full much in this work; the third time to counsel with old grammarians and old divines of hard words and hard sentences, how they might best be understood and translated; the fourth time to translate as clearly as he could to the sentence,[133] and to have many good fellows and cunning at the correcting of the translation. First it is to know that the best translating out of Latin into English is to translate after the sentence, and not only after the words, so that the sentence be as open, either opener, in English as in Latin, and go not far from the letter; and if the letter may not be sued (followed) in the translating, let the sentence be ever whole and open, for the words ought to serve to the intent and sentence, and else the words be superfluous or false. In translating into English many resolutions may make the sentence open, as an ablative case absolute may be resolved into these three words, with convenable (suitable) verb, _the while_, _for if_, as grammarians say, as thus: _the master reading, I stand_, may be resolved thus, _while the master readeth I stand_, or, _if the master readeth, &c._, or, _for the master, &c._; and sometime it would accord well with the sentence to be resolved into _when_ or into _afterward_, thus, _when the master read I stood_, or, _after the master read I stood_; and sometime it may well be resolved into a verb of the same tense as others be in the same clause, and into this word _et_; that is, _and_ in English, as thus, _arescentibus hominibus prae timore_; that is, _and men should wax dry for dread_. Also a participle of a present tense or preterite of active voice or passive may be resolved into a verb of the same tense and a conjunction copulative, as thus, _dicens_; that is, _saying_ may be resolved thus, _and saith_, or, _that saith_; and this will in many places make the sentence open, where to English it, after the verb, would be dark and doubtful. Also a relative, which may be resolved into his antecedent with a conjunction copulative, as thus, _which runneth_, _and he runneth_. Also when one word is once set in a clause it may be set forth as often as it is understood, or as often as reason and need ask. And this word _autem_, or _vero_, may stand for _forsooth_, or for _but_, and thus I use commonly; and sometime it may stand for _and_, as old grammarians say. Also when rightful construction is let (prevented) by relation, I resolve it openly; thus where this