William Tyndale

“ And if thou leave the literal sense, thou canst not but go out of the way. Neverthelater, the Scripture useth proverbs, similitudes, riddles, or allegories, as all other speeches do; but that which the proverb, similitude, riddle, or allegory signifieth, is ever the literal sense, which thou must seek out diligently: as in the English we borrow words and sentences of one thing, and apply them unto another, and give them new significations. ”

“ If the porridge be burned too, or the meat overroasted, we say, "The bishop hath put his foot in the pot," or "The bishop hath played the cook"; because the bishops burn whom they lust, and whosoever displeaseth them. "He is a pontifical fellow" ”

“ For it is not the Scripture, but an ensample or a similitude borrowed of the Scripture, to declare a text or a conclusion o the Scripture more expressly, and to root it and grave it in the heart. For a man than doth a plain speaking, and leaveth behind him as it were a sting to prick him forward, and to awake him withal. ”