[Footnote 2: An Analysis of the "divers pamphlets published against the Book of Common Prayer" would make a very curious volume. Take a passage from the _Anatomy of the Service Book_, for instance: "The cruellest of the American savages, called the Mohaukes, though they fattened their captive Christians to the slaughter, yet they eat them up at once; but the Service-book savages eat the servants of God by piece-meal: keeping them alive (if it may be called a life) _ut sentiant se mori_, that they may be the more sensible of their dying" (p. 56.). Sir Walter Scott quotes a curious tract in _Woodstock_, entitled _Vindication of the Book of Common Prayer against the Contumelious Slanders of the Fanatic Party terming it_ "Porridge." The author of this singular and rare tract (says Sir W.) indulges in the allegorical style, till he fairly hunts down the allegory. The learned divine chases his metaphor at a very cold scent, through a pamphlet of his mortal quarto pages.--See a _Parallel of the Liturgy with the Mass Book, Breviary, &c._, by Robert Baylie. 1661, 4to.] [Footnote 3: [See "N. & Q.," Vol. viii., p. 172.--ED.]] [Footnote 4: See Grey's _Hudibras_, Dublin, 1744, vol. ii. p. 248., vol. i. pp. 150, 151., where allusions both to "The Trojan Mare" and tying "the fox tails together" occur. Butler was versed in the controversies of his day, and, moreover, loved to satirise the metaphor mania by his exquisitely comic similes.] [Footnote 5: Let any one interested in the history of Comprehension refer to the proceedings relative to the formation of the "Evangelical Alliance." Jeremy Collier gives a curious parallel:--"Lord Burleigh, upon some complaint against the Liturgy, bade the Dissenters draw up another, and contrive the offices in such a form as might give general satisfaction to their brethren. Upon this overture the first classis struck out their lines, and drew mostly by the portrait of Geneva. This draught was referred to the consideration of a second classis, who made no less than _six hundred_ exceptions to it. The third classis quarrelled with the corrections of the second, and declared for a new model. The fourth refined no less upon the third. The treasurer advised all these reviews, and different committees, on purpose to break their measures and silence their clamours against the Church. However, since they could not come to any agreement in a form for divine service, he had a handsome opportunity for a release: for now they could not decently importune him any farther. To part smoothly with them, he assured their agents that, when they came to any unanimous resolve upon the matter before them, they might expect his friendship, and that he should be ready to bring their scheme to a settlement." Collier's _Hist._, vol. viii. p. 16. See Cardwell's _Hist. of the Conference connected with the Revision of the Book of Common Prayer_, London, 1849, 8vo. See also _Quarterly Review_, vol. 1. pp. 508-561., No. C. Jan. 1834.