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The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse.

HALIFAX, Charles Montagu, Earl of. & PRIOR, Matthew. The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse. Printed for J. Hooke. 1727
[viii], 54pp, [2]; 12 misnumbered 13. 8vo. Disbound.

¶ESTC T75646, BL, NLS, Cambridge only in British Isles; University of Pennsylvania only. The Hind and the Panther is a 2600-line poem by John Dryden first published in 1687. The poem was written only a couple of years after Dryden had converted to Catholicism and is divided into three parts in which various animals represent different religious beliefs and are discussing theology. Charles Montagu and his friend and colleague Matthew Prior attacked Dryden's work in this burlesque pamphlet first published in 1687, and much reprinted since, asking in the preface: 'is it not as easie to imagine two mice bilking coachmen, and supping at the devil; as to suppose a Hind entertaining the Panther at a Hermit's cell, discussing the greatest mysteries of religion, and telling you her son Rodriguez writ very good Spanish?'
Stock #78575
£180


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