The reader may be curious to possess a specimen of this ancient relic; we therefore make a few random extracts, in contrast with the modern and approved version, commencing with St. PAUL'S eloquent narration of his sufferings for the faith, in the eleventh chapter of II Corinthians: TYNEDALE. MODERN VERSION. "Wherin soever eny man dare be |"Howbeit, whereinsoever any is bolde (I speake folisshly) I dare |bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am be bolde also. They are Ebrues, so |bold also. Are they Hebrews? so am I: They are Israelites, even so |am I. Are they Israelites? so am am I: They are the sede off Abraham, |I. Are they the seed of Abraham? even so am I. They are the ministers |so am I. Are they ministers of off Crist (I speake as a fole) I am |Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I moare: In labours moare abundant: |am more: in labours more abundant, In strypes above measure: In preson |in stripes above measure, in more plenteously: In deeth ofte. Of |prisons more frequent, in deaths the Iewes five tymes receaved I |oft. Of the Jews five times every tymes xl. strypes, one excepte.|received I forty stripes save Thryse was I beten with roddes. I |one. Thrice was I beaten with was once stoned. I suffred thryse |rods, once was I stoned, thrice I shipwracke. Nyght and daye have I |suffered shipwreck, a night and a bene in the depe off the see. In |day I have been in the deep. In iorneyinge often: In parrels of |journeyings often, in perils waters: In parrels of robbers: In |of waters, in perils of robbers, ieoperdies off myne awne nacion: In |in perils by mine own countrymen, ieorperdies amonge the hethen. I have|in perils by the heathen, in perils bene in parrels in cities, in parrels|in the city, in perils in the in wildernes, in parrels in the see, |wilderness, in perils in the sea, in parrels amonge falce brethren, in |in perils among false brethren. laboure and travayle, in watchynge |In weariness and painfulness, in often, in honger, in thirst, in |watchings often, in hunger and fastynges often, in colde and in |thirst, in fastings often, in cold nakednes. |and nakedness. | "Besyde the thynges which outwardly |"Besides those things that are happen vnto me, I am combred dayly, |without, that which cometh upon and care for all congregacions. Who |me daily, the care of all the is sicke: and I am not sick? Who is |churches. Who is weak and I am not hurte in the fayth: and my hert |weak? who is offended, and I burn burneth not? Yf I must nedes reioyce,|not? If I must needs glory, I I will reioyce of myne infirmities." |will glory of the things which |concern mine infirmities."