Amen and amen!
And soon after Master Tyndall happened to be in the company of a learned man, and in the communing and disputing with him drove him to that issue that the learned man said, we were better be without God's law than the pope's: Maister Tyndall hearing that answered him, I defy the Pope and all his laws, and said if God spare my life ere many years,I will cause a boy that driveth the plough, shall know more of the scripture than thou dost. The works echo Erasmus in his 'paraclesis' (William Tyndale, A Biography, David Daniell, p.79)The work cited for this is The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe. The source for Foxe was Richard Webb, a priest. Another work cites the statement by Tyndale as well, stating that it was this outburst that led Tyndale to flee lest he be brought up on heresy charges again. (God's Bestseller, Brian Moynahan, p.31) Neither historian questions the fact that Tyndale, did in fact, make that comment.