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THE BIBLE WORD-BOOK.

Threescore and ten (Ps. xc. 10, &c.). Seventy. On this time-honoured and as he calls it "patriarchal' phrase, Mr Thomas Watts has remarked:

"It is to the pen of Coverdale, the early English translator of the Bible, that we appear to have been indebted for an expression so happy. In the original it does not occur...Coverdale has been accused of making too much use in his English of the German translation of Luther, which preceded his; but in that version also, nothing but the ordinary 'siebenzig' appears. It has not been supposed that he consulted the French translation, but in that language the turn of phrase which in ours is a beauty or a blemish, is a strict necessity, and the ungraceful 'soixante-dix' may possibly have suggested the fortunate paraphrase" (Proc. of the Philological Society, VI. p. 7).

Euery one of these parts was such, as might yeeld vnto the owner yeerely, three score and ten bushels of barley for a man, and twelue bushels for the woman, and of wine and other liquide fruites, much like in proportion. North's Plutarch, Lycurgus, P. 49.

Threescore and ten I can remember well.

Shakespeare, Macb. II. 4. Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me. Id. 1 Hen. IV. II. 2.

Turn again (Judg. xi. 8; Ruth i. 11; 1 Sam. xv. 25, &c.). To return.

O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle: afore I go thyther, from whence I shal not turne agayne. Coverdale, Job x. 21.

Though a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with another, yet the nombre of my yeares are come, & I must go the waye, from whence I shal not turne agayne. Ibid. xvi. 22.

Wicked, sb. (2 Thess. ii. 8). A wicked person.

There lay his body vnburied all that Friday, and the morrow till afternoone, none daring to deliuer his body to the sepulture, his head these wicked tooke, and nayling thereon his hoode, they fixe it on a pole, and set it on London Bridge. Stow, Ann. p. 458.

INDEX OF EDITIONS QUOTED.

Acosta, The naturall and morall His-
torie of the Indies, Eng. tr. 1604.
Ames, Typographical Antiquities, ed.
Herbert, 1785.

Ammianus Marcellinus, trans. Hol-
land, 1609.

Anturs of Arthur, ed. 'Robson (Three
early Eng. Metr. Rom. Camden So-
ciety).

Arthur (King), ed. T. Wright.
Ascham, The Scholemaster, ed. Mayor,
1863.

Audelay, Poems, (Percy Society).
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 1605.
History of Hen. VII. 1622.
Advertisement touching an

Holy Warre, 1629.

Essays and Colours of Good
and Evil, ed. W. Aldis Wright, 1862.
Baret, Alvearie, 1580.

Beaumont and Fletcher, ed. Dyce.
Beket (Thomas), Life of, (Percy Society).
Blundevile, Exercises, 1594.
Body and Soul, Dialogue of the, (Cam-
den Society).

Bramston, Sir J. Autobiography, (Cam-
den Society).

Brandan, (St) Legend of, (Percy Soc.).
Bullinger, Decades, (Parker Society).
Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 2 voll.
8vo. 1813.

Camden, Remaines, 1605.
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, ed. T.
Wright, (Percy Society).

Minor Poems, ed. Singer,

(Pickering, 1846).
Cheke (Sir J.), Hurt of Sedition, 1569.
Chester Plays, (Shakespeare Society).
Chronicle of Calais, (Camden Society).
Commines (Philip de), trans. Danett,
1596.

Cotgrave, French Dictionary, 1611.
Coventry Mysteries, (Shakespeare So-
ciety).
Coverdale, Trans. of Bible, (Bagster's
reprint).

Cranmer, Remains and Letters, (Parker
Society).

Croke, Version of the Psalms, (Percy
Society).

Douglas (Gawin), Pallice of Honour,
1788.

Drayton, Polyolbion, Books I-XVIII.
1613. The other books are quoted
from the edition of 1622.

Battle of Agincourt, Nymphi-
dia, &c. 1627.

1605.

· England's Heroical Epistles,

Dunbar, Poems, ed. Laing.
Elyot, The Governour, 1565.
Erasmus, Paraphrasé, Vol. I. trans.
Udal, 1548.

On the Creed and the x. Com-
mandments, Eng. tr. London, Red-
man, n. d.

Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, 1598.
Italian Dictionary, 1611.
Frampton, Ioyfull Newes out of the
new-found Worlde, 1596.
Fuller, Holy and Profane State, (Pick-
ering's ed. 1840).

Gascoigne, Works, 1587.

Gesta Romanorum, ed. Madden.
Gower, Confessio Amantis, ed. Pauli.
Greene, Works, ed. Dyce."

Mourning Garment, 1590.
Grey (Lord) of Wilton, Life of, (Camden
Society).

Grindal, Remains, (Parker Society).
Hall, Chronicle, 1550.

Hall, Satires, (Anderson's Brit. Poets).
Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure, (Percy
Society).

Herrick, Hesperides, (Pickering's ed.)
Heywood, Dramatic Works, ed. Field,
(Shakespeare Society).
Holinshed, Chronicle, 1577.

Homer, trans. Chapman, ed. Hooper,
1857-8.

Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, ed.
Keble.

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INDEX OF EDITIONS QUOTED.

James I. Works, 1616.

Jonson, Ben, ed. Gifford.

King (Bp.), Vitis Palatina, 1614.
Latimer, Sermons and Remains, (Parker
Society).

Leycester Correspondence, (Camden
Society).

Linschoten's Voyages, Eng. tr. 1598.
Livy, trans. Holland, 1600.
Lyte, Herbal, 1595.

Machyn's Diary, (Camden Society).
Marlowe, ed. Dyce.
Marston, ed. Halliwell.
Massinger, ed. Gifford.

Milton, Poetical Works, ed. Todd, 1809.
Paradise Lost, 1669.

Minsheu, Spanish Dictionary, 1623.
Mirror for Magistrates, 1587.
Montaigne, Essays, trans. Florio, 1603.
More (Sir T.), Works, 1557.

n. d.

Dialogue, 1530.

Supplication of Souls, fol.

Utopia, trans. Robynson,

2nd ed. Lond. Vele, n.d.
Moryson, Itinerary, 1617.
Nash, Quaternio, 1633.
Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 1599.
Overbury (Sir T.), Works, ed. Rim-
bault.

Palsgrave, Lesclaircissement de la
langue Francoyse (ed. Génin, Paris,
1852).

Pecock's Repressor, ed. Babington.
Piers Ploughman's Vision and Creed,
ed. T. Wright, 1842.

Pliny, trans. Holland, 1634.
Plutarch, Lives, trans. North, 1595.

Morals, trans. Holland, 1603.
Promptorium Parvulorum, ed. Way,
(Camden Society).

Ralegh, Disc. of Guiana, (Hakluy
Society).

Robert of Brunne, ed. Hearne, (Bag-
ster's reprint, 1810).

Robert of Gloucester, ed. Hearne, (Bag-
ster's reprint, 1810).

Rolle, The Pricke of Conscience, ed.
Morris, 1863.

Sackville, Induction, 1587.

Sandys, Sermons, (Parker Society).
Shakespeare, Globe edition.

Sidney, Arcadia, Astrophel and Stella,
Defence of Poesie, 3rd ed. 1598.
Skelton, ed. Dyce.

Sleidan's Commentaries, trans. Daus,
1560.

Smart, Sermon, 1640.

Spenser, Fairy Queen, I-VI. 1596.
The other works are quoted from the
ed. of 1617.

Stow, Annals, 1601.

Surrey, Sonnets, 1557.
Tasso, trans. Fairfax, 1600.
Thornton Romances, Sir Perceval, Sir
Isumbras, Sir Eglamour, Sir Degre-
vant, (Camden Society).

Tusser, Five hundreth points of Good
Husbandrie, 1604.

Tyndale, Doctrinal Treatises and An-
swer to More, (Parker Society).
Udal, Roister Doister, (Shakespeare
Society).

Vergil (Polydore), English History,
(Camden Society).
Webster, ed. Dyce.

Wiclif, Translation of the Bible, ed.
Forshall and Madden. Except when
otherwise stated, this edition is used,
and the earlier and later versions are
distinguished as Wiclif (1) and Wiclif
(2).

THE END.

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