[Footnote 165: The Huguenot preachers, being Calvinists, had received classical, and not episcopal ordination: hence, unless re-ordained, they were not admitted to preach in the established church of England.] [Footnote 166: Note VIII.] [Footnote 167: Note IX.] [Footnote 168: The magicians imitated Moses in producing the frogs which infested Egypt; but they could not relieve from that, or any of the other plagues. By that of boils and blains they were afflicted themselves, like the other Egyptians. "And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians." _Exod._ ix. 11.] [Footnote 169: Debauchees.] [Footnote 170: Note X.] [Footnote 171: Note XI.] [Footnote 172: Alluding to the doctrines of Wiccliff and the Lollards, condemned as heresies in their own times, but revived by the reformers.] [Footnote 173: About seven hundred years elapsed between the departure of the church of Rome from the simplicity of the primitive Christians, and the dawn of the Reformation.] [Footnote 174: Note XII.] [Footnote 175: Note XIII.] [Footnote 176: _Poeta loquitur._] [Footnote 177: King James.] [Footnote 178: Note XIV.] [Footnote 179: Our Saviour.] [Footnote 180: _Ut ventum ad sedes: Hœc, inquit, limina victor Alcides subiit; hœc illum regia cepit. Aude, hospes, contemnere opes, et te quoque dignum Finge deo; rebusque veni non asper egenis._ Æneid. Lib. VIII. ] NOTES ON THE HIND AND THE PANTHER. PART II. Note I. _Dame, said the Panther, times are mended well, Since late among the Philistines you fell. The toils were pitched, a spacious tract of ground, With expert huntsmen, was encompassed round; The enclosure narrowed; the sagacious power Of hounds and death drew nearer every hour._--P. 161. In these spirited lines, Dryden describes the dangers in which the English Catholics were involved by the Popish Plot, which rendered them so obnoxious for two years, that even Charles himself, much as he was inclined to favour them, durst not attempt to prevent the most severe measures from being adopted towards them. It is somewhat curious, that the very same metaphor of hounds and huntsmen is employed by one of the most warm advocates for the plot. "Had this plot been a forged contrivance of their own, (_i.e._ the Papists,) they would at the very first discovery of it have had half a dozen, or half a score, crafty fellows, ready to have attested all the same things; whereas, on the contrary, notwithstanding we are now on a burning scent, we were fain till here of late to pick out, by little and little, all upon a cold scent, and that stained too by the tricks and malice of our enemies. So that had we not had some such good huntsmen as the Right Noble Earl of Shaftesbury, to manage the chase for us, our hounds must needs have been baffled, and the game lost."--_Appeal from the Country to the City._ State Tracts, p. 407.