CHAPTER XVII.
THE LAST STAGE.
SOLATED at the end of his life, except for the few friends who gathered round him or came to see him in his Leicestershire parsonage, John Wyclif devoted himself more and more to his literary labours. In addition to the revised version of the Bible, of which something has been said in a previous chapter, he continued the writing and circulation of English treatises, without entirely abandoning the use of Latin. The Trialogus, for instance, which contains references to the attempted suppression of his Poor Priests, must have been produced in one of the last three years, probably in 1383[1]; but it was in his
- ↑ The Trialogus is in the form of a conversation on the nature of God, men, and angels, on virtue and sin, on grace and liberty; on the
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