._'"

A work under this title was published, if I mistake not, in London in 1678
by Dr. Henry Nalson; in 1682, Robert Ware reprinted it with a second part
of his own; and in 1689 he added a _third_ and last part in 12mo., uniform
with the previous volume.[3] In the Epist. Ded. to Part II. the writer says
of the Church of England:

"The Papists on the one hand, and the Puritans on the other, did
endeavour to sully and bespatter the glory of her Reformation: the one
taxing it with innovation, and the other with superstition."

The Preface to the Third Part declares that the object of the whole work is
"to reclaim the most haggard Papists" and Puritans.

Wheatly, in treating of the State Service for the 29th of May, remarks:

"The Papists and Sectaries, like Sampson's Foxes, though they look
contrary ways, do yet both join in carrying Fire to destroy us: their
End is the same, though the method be different."--_Rational Illust. of
the Book of Common Prayer_, 3rd edit., London, 1720, folio.

The following passage occurs in _A Letter to the Author of the Vindication
of the Clergy_, by Dr. Eachard, London, 1705:

"I have put in hard, I'll assure you, in all companies, for two or
three more: as for example, _The Papist and the Puritan being tyed
together like Sampson's Foxes_. I liked it well enough, and have
beseeched them to let it pass for a phansie; but I could never get the
rogues in a good humour to do it: for they say that _Sampson's foxes_
have been so very long and so very often tied together, that it is high
time to part them. It may be because something very like it is to be
found in a printed sermon, which was preached thirty-eight years ago:
it is no flam nor whisker. It is the forty-third page upon the right
hand. Yours go thus, viz. _Papist and Puritan, like Sampson's Foxes,
though looking and running two several ways, yet are ever joyned
together the tail._ My author has it thus, viz. _The Separatists and
the Romanists consequently to their otherwise most distant principles
do fully agree, like Sampson's Foxes, tyed together by the tails, to
set all on fire, although their faces look quite contrary ways._"--P.
34.

It would be easy to multiply passages in which this simile occurs; but what
I have given is {487} suffcient for my purpose, and I must leave room for
"The Trojan Horse."[4]

I must content myself with