Wickliffe's English style is elegant for the age in which he lived, yet very different from what is elegant now.
This first English translation of the Bible, being made about a hundred years before the introduction of printing into England, could not have been very extensively circulated.

A large specimen of it may be seen in Dr.
Johnson's History of the English Language.

Wickliffe died in 1384.

The art of printing was invented about 1440, and first introduced into England, in 1468; but the first printed edition of the Bible in English, was executed in Germany.

It was completed, October 5th, 1535.
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