Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

dreadful tragedy, and who rightly interpreted the
feeling of the bystanders -- "Come, let us cast the
children into the fire, lest they, too, one day
become heretics." So saying, he rushed towards
Alice and attempted to lay hold upon her; but the
maiden started back:, and avoided the villain.[13]
Next to the heretics, the priests dreaded the
scholars. Their instincts taught them that the new
learning boded no good to their system. Of all the
learned men now in England the one whom they
hated most was Erasmus, and with just reason. He
stood confessedly at the head of the scholars,
whether in England or on the Continent. He had
great influence at court; he wielded a pungent wit,
as they had occasion daily to experience -- in short,
he must be expelled the kingdom. But Erasmus
resolved to take ample compensation from those
who had driven him out. He went straight to Basle,
and establishing himself at the printing-press of
Frobenius, issued his Greek and Latin New
Testament. The world now possessed for the first
time a printed copy in the original Greek of the
New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus
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