Unfortunately, my answer is another writer of the King's English. Literally.

You know how nobody reads Shakespeare any more because he's so full of clichés? Similarly, nobody reads William Tyndale any more. What did Tyndale write? In a manner of speaking, the first draft of the King James Version of the Bible. One estimate suggests the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's and the Old Testament 76%. For his eloquence, Tyndale was strangled to death, then burnt at the stake. (Wikipedia)

Though Tyndale was a century earlier, it is an amazing circumstance that the two great sources of English idioms (Shakespeare and the KJV) are contemporaneous.