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Tyndale translated the Bible into English, even though the Catholic Church believes that the Bible must only be written in Latin. This is why Thomas More brands him a heretic, causing Tyndale to flee from England for his safety. Cromwell secretly owns a copy of Tyndale’s Bible and likes that he has made it accessible to so many people. He has met Tyndale and thinks he is “a principled man,” and he later tries to initiate a reconciliation between Tyndale and Henry so Tyndale can return home to England. However, Tyndale stubbornly refuses to support Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, which frustrates Cromwell. He decides that More and Tyndale are “mules that pass for men” and deserve each other. Cromwell loses patience with people like them who cling to their beliefs without paying any attention to the consequences of doing so. At the conclusion of the novel, Tyndale is captured by Emperor Charles, and More hints that he had a hand in it.
William Tyndale Quotes in Wolf Hall
The Wolf Hall quotes below are all either spoken by William Tyndale or refer to William Tyndale. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 4: Chapter 2
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When the Loller was led out between the officers the people jeered and shouted. He saw that she was a grandmother, perhaps the oldest person he had ever seen. The officers were nearly carrying her. She had no cap or veil. Her hair seemed to be torn out of her head in patches. People behind him said, no doubt she did that herself, in desperation at her sin. Behind the Loller came two monks, parading like fat gray rats, crosses in their pink paws. The woman in the clean cap […] balled her two hands into fists and punched them in the air, and from the depth of her belly she let loose a scream, a halloo, in a shrill voice like a demon. The press of people took up the cry.
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William Tyndale Quotes in Wolf Hall
The Wolf Hall quotes below are all either spoken by William Tyndale or refer to William Tyndale. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 4: Chapter 2
Quotes
When the Loller was led out between the officers the people jeered and shouted. He saw that she was a grandmother, perhaps the oldest person he had ever seen. The officers were nearly carrying her. She had no cap or veil. Her hair seemed to be torn out of her head in patches. People behind him said, no doubt she did that herself, in desperation at her sin. Behind the Loller came two monks, parading like fat gray rats, crosses in their pink paws. The woman in the clean cap […] balled her two hands into fists and punched them in the air, and from the depth of her belly she let loose a scream, a halloo, in a shrill voice like a demon. The press of people took up the cry.
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