The Church of Rome he represented under the similitude of a milkwhite hind, ever in peril of death, yet fated not to die.

The beasts of the field were bent on her destruction.

The quaking hare, indeed, observed a timorous neutrality: but the Socinian fox, the Presbyterian wolf, the Independent bear, the Anabaptist boar, glared fiercely at the spotless creature.

Yet she could venture to drink with them at the common watering place under the protection of her friend, the kingly lion.

The Church of England was typified by the panther, spotted indeed, but beautiful, too beautiful for a beast of prey.