Note 2 — Replies.
Reading edition
[Our correspondent of course alludes to King James's translation. Upon reference to Sir Frederic Madden's admirable edition of Wickliffe's Bible, we find A. E. B.'s position directly corroborated: "The erthe that thou askist is worth foure hundryd sicles of silver."—Genesis, xxiii. 15. And in Exodus, xxx. 13., "A sicle that is a nounce hath twenti half scripples;" or, as in the second edition, "A sicle hath twenti halpens."—ED.]