[This motto is from Homer, _Iliad_, xviii. 125. Its literal translation
is, They (the enemy) shall know that it was I who have long kept away
from the war," and, by implication, that I have now returned to it;
even I, the great hero Achilles; for he is the taunting speaker. Had it
not been for my absence, he intimates, the Trojans had not gained so
many and great victories. We must leave our correspondent to apply this
Homeric verse to the Protestant dark ages of the Georgian era, and to
the theological movement of 1833.]
_John Bale, Bishop of Ossory_ (Vol. ix., p. 324.).--A catalogue, professing
to be a complete one, of this over-ardent reformer's voluminous works, with
a portrait, may be seen in Holland's _Herooelogia Anglica_, fol. 165-7.
There are some curious notices concerning him in Blomefield's _History of
Norwich_ (fol. 1741), pp. 154, 155, 794., where reference is also made to
his brother Robert as a learned man and great writer.