The hind and the panther, equally hated by the ferocious population of the forest, conferred apart on their common danger.

They then proceeded to discuss the points on which they differed, and, while wagging their tails and licking their jaws, held a long dialogue touching the real presence, the authority of Popes and Councils, the penal laws, the Test Act, Oates's perjuries, Butler's unrequited services to the Cavalier party, Stillingfleet's pamphlets, and Burnet's broad shoulders and fortunate matrimonial speculations.
The absurdity of this plan is obvious.

In truth the allegory could not be preserved unbroken through ten lines together.

No art of execution could redeem the faults of such a design.

Yet the Fable of the Hind and Panther is undoubtedly the most valuable addition which was made to English literature during the short and troubled reign of James the Second.