Note 2 — LETTER XXXIII.
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In reply to such instances of the author's bigotry, which occur but too often, the words of an old English divine may not unaptly be quoted. "Sufficeth it us to know, that as the herneshaw, when unable by main strength to grapple with the hawk, doth slice upon her, bespattering the hawk's wings with dung or ordure, so to conquer with her tail what she cannot do with her bill and beak: so Papists, finding themselves unable to encounter the Protestants by force of argument out of the Scriptures, cast the dung of foul language and filthy railing upon them."—Tr.