Lollard: A contemptuous name for the followers of Wyckliffe; presumably derived from the Latin, "lolium," tares, as if they were the tares among the Lord's wheat; so, a few lines below, the Shipman intimates his fear lest the Parson should "spring cockle in our clean corn."英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
The Lord's church has been always peculiarly tried at different stages of history, and each era will have its peculiar glory in eternity. At the present time the trial for the church is peculiar; never before, perhaps, were the insinuations of the adversary so plausible and artful--his ingenuity so subtle--himself so much an angel of light--experience has sharpened his wit--"WHILE MEN SLEPT the enemy sowed tares"--he is now the base hypocrite--he suits his blandishments to all--the Church is lulled in the arms of the monster, rolling the sweet morsel under her tongue .英文原著 · 《Cambridge Pieces》
"Nay, by my father's soul, that shall he not," Saide the Shipman, "here shall he not preach, He shall no gospel here explain or teach. We all believe in the great God," quoth he; "He woulde sowe some difficulty, Or springe cockle in our clean corn." (The nickname Lollards was erroneously derived from "lolia" (tares).)英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
We have to watch out for the devil lest he sow tares among the wheat while we sleep. No sooner had Paul turned his back on the churches of Galatia, than the false apostles went to work. Therefore, let us watch over ourselves and over the whole church. VERSE 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed. Again the Apostle puts in a gentle word. He does not berate the Galatians, "I marvel that ye are so unsteady, unfaithful." He says, "I marvel that ye are so soon removed." He does not address them as evildoers. He speaks to them as people who have suffered great loss.英文原著 · 《Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians》
In the sacred Volume they saw and reverenced the bounden wheat-sheaf that STOOD UPRIGHT and had OBEISANCE from all the other sheaves (the writings, I mean, of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church), sheaves depreciated indeed, more or less, with tares,英文原著 · 《Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc》
[Footnote a: To feel the point of this joke the reader should recollect that Madame de Grignan was Gouvernante de Provence.] "Madame de Tarente etait hier dans ces bois par un temps enchante: il n'est question ni de chambre ni de collation; elle entre par la barriere et s'en retourne de meme.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》