'Thus _Homer_ is well known to have liken'd one of his principal Heroes to this noble Animal; which was in such Esteem among the antient _Jews_, that he was not only an object of their Devotion, but they are said to have preserved his Figure in massy Gold in the Temple of _Jerusalem_. 'If the Transfiguration of _Midas_ in the _Metamorphosis_ doth but little Honour to the Ears of our Symbol, the Story of _Lotis_ which the same Poet tells in his Fastorum, is greatly in praise of his Braying, by which the Chastity of that Nymph was rescued from the wicked Designs of her insidious Lover. 'In such esteem hath this noble Beast been held among the Learned, that I have seen a Book composed in his Favour and entitled _Laus Asini_: not to mention the celebrated performance of _Apuleius_ to which he hath given the Name of the _Golden Ass_. 'Instead therefore of being displeased with the Emblem, our Party have great Reason to be vain on this Occasion, nor do I think there can be a greater Comparison than of a Protestant Jacobite to an Ass, or one more to the Honour of the former. 'First, what can so well answer to that noble and invincible obstinacy, which I have more than once celebrated in our Party, as the intractable and unalterable Nature of this Animal, which gave rise to an antient Proverb alluded to by _Horace_ in his Satires:-- '"---- Your Art As well may teach an Ass to scour the Plain And bend obedient to the forming Rein." 'And again in his Epistles:-- '"Democritus would think the writers told To a deaf Ass their story ----" 'Which may most strictly be applied to all those writers, who have endeavoured to convince the Jacobites by argument. 'Again what can give us a more adequate Idea of that Firmness, with which we have supported all the ill-usage of the worst of Sovereigns without Resentment, than the laudable Indifference which an Ass hath for the same; whom you may beat, whip, kick, and spur as long as you are pleased, he still trudges on without altering his Pace.