John Foxe
describes an argument with a "learned" but "blasphemous" clergyman, who
had asserted to William Tyndale that, "We had better be without God's laws than
the Pope's." Swelling with emotion, Tyndale responded: "I defy the
Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I
will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures
than thou dost!"
