We are accustomed to seeing lions, unicorns and deer (hinds) on samplers, but on early samplers we often see an incongruous spotty feline that is undoubtedly a panther. How on earth, you may ask, did a PANTHER steal into this sampler?
To cut a long story short because I should at some stage catch up with the ironing, the panther symbolizes the Protestant church while the hind symbolizes the Catholic church. There is a famous poem by Dryden - The Hind and the Panther which you can find and read on Google Books. Maybe a friend will read it to you as you iron.......
Sunday, 22 March 2009
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