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In this long poem of 2,000 lines, we have the arguments which conducted
the poet to this change. The different beasts represent the different
churches and sects. The Church of Rome is thus represented:
A milk-white hind, immortal and unchanged,
Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged;
Without unspotted, innocent within,
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
The other beasts were united to destroy her; but she could "venture to
drink with them at the common watering-place under the protection of her
friend the kingly lion."
The Panther is the Church of England:
The Panther, sure the noblest, next the hind,
And fairest creature of the spotted kind;
Oh, could her inborn stains be washed away,
She were too good to be a beast of prey!
Then he Introduces.--
The _Bloody Bear_, an _Independent_ beast; the _Quaking Hare_, for the
_Quakers_; the _Bristled Baptist Boar_.
In this fable, quite in the style of AEsop, we find the Dame, _i.e._, the
Hind, entering into the subtle points of theology, and trying to prove her
position.


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