...came to warn the dying man, as they supposed ; when, lifting himself up in his bed, he replied : " I shall not die, but live, and again declare the evil deeds of the friars." He did not die, but lived to do what he threatened. Again we are at Oxford, in the spring of 1381....

...raise him on his pillows ; and then, fixing his eyes upon the company, he said, with a firm voice, " I shall not die, but live, and again declare the evil...his pledge of renewed hostility to the Mendicants. For an account of Wiclif's translation of the Bible into English, and the important consequences of...

...raise him on the pillow; and then fixing his eyes upon them sternly, he said with a firm voice,—' I shall not die, but live and again declare the evil deeds of the Friars.' in which he lived, were on many accounts remarkable. One striking feature was a schism in the Papacy....

...ordering his servants to raise him up with pillows, he fixed his eyes upon the company and said ; " I shall not die, but live, and again declare the evil deeds of the Friars." About this time the world was astonished by the sight of two Popes, one set up against the other, and...

...raise him on his pillows ; and then, fixing his eyes upon the company, he said, with a firm voice, " I shall not die, but live, and again declare the evil deeds of the Friara." The consternation of the doctors may easily be imagined. They immediately retired in confusion...

...then, calling upon his servants to raise his head, he fixed his eyes upon the company and said: "I shall not die. but live; and again declare the evil...deeds of the friars." The consternation of the doctors was overwhelming; they retired in the utmost confusion, and Wiclif soon recovered, and renewed tho...

...raise him on his pillows; and then fixing his eyes upon the company, he said, with a firm voice, ' I shall not die, but live, and again declare the evil deeds of the friares.' " The consternation of the doctors," continues Le Bas, "may easily be imagined. They immediately...

...them. He was supposed to be near his end, but suddenly raining himself in his bed, he exclaimed, " I shall not die, but live, and again declare the evil deeds of the Friars." And this indeed he did when he published his Version of the English Bible. Such then were the circumstances...

...recantation, and opening his livid lips, and fixing on them a piercing look, he said with emphasis : " I shall not die, but live ; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars." We might almost picture to ourselves the spirit of Elijah threatening the priests of Baal. The regents...

...his bed, his cheek flushed and his eye kindling under the unwonted excitement, as he exclaimed, " I shall not die, but live, and again declare the evil deeds of the friars." He did live ; and, in a tract called the Wycket, made still greater innovations. In 1381, he appears...