"I have put in hard, I'll assure you, in all companies, for two or three more: as for example, _The Papist and the Puritan being tyed together like Sampson's Foxes_. I liked it well enough, and have beseeched them to let it pass for a phansie; but I could never get the rogues in a good humour to do it: for they say that _Sampson's foxes_ have been so very long and so very often tied together, that it is high time to part them. It may be because something very like it is to be found in a printed sermon, which was preached thirty-eight years ago: it is no flam nor whisker. It is the forty-third page upon the right hand. Yours go thus, viz. _Papist and Puritan, like Sampson's Foxes, though looking and running two several ways, yet are ever joyned together the tail._ My author has it thus, viz. _The Separatists and the Romanists consequently to their otherwise most distant principles do fully agree, like Sampson's Foxes, tyed together by the tails, to set all on fire, although their faces look quite contrary ways._"--P. 34. It would be easy to multiply passages in which this simile occurs; but what I have given is {487} suffcient for my purpose, and I must leave room for "The Trojan Horse."[4] I must content myself with giving the title of the following work, as I have never met with the book itself: _The Trojan Horse, or The Presbyterian Government Unbowelled_, London, 1646. In a brochure of Primate Bramhall's, entitled "A Faire Warning for England to take heed of the Presbyterian Government.... Also the Sinfulnesse and Wickednesse of the _Covenant_, to introduce that Government upon the Church of England." the second paragraph of the first page proceeds: "But to see those very men who plead so vehemently against all kinds of tyranny, attempt to obtrude their own dreames not only upon their fellow-subjects, but upon their sovereigne himself, contrary to the dictates of his own conscience, contrary to all law of God and man; yea to compell forreigne churches to dance after their pipe, to worship that counterfeit image which they feign to have fallen down from Jupiter, and by force of arms to turne their neighbours out of a possession of above 1400 years, to make roome for their _Trojan Horse_ of ecclesiastical discipline (a practice never justified in the world but either by the Turk or by the Pope): this put us upon the defensive part. They must not think that other men are so cowed or grown so tame, as to stand still blowing of their noses, whilst they bridle them and ride them at their pleasure. It is time to let the world see that _this discipline_ which they so much adore, is _the very quintessence of refined Popery_."