is "innocent abuse."

While noticing the false wit which passed current in that century, we must
not forget that the same age produced a South and a Butler: and that in
beauty of simile, few, if any, surpass Bishop Jeremy Taylor.]

[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 rev