Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

ight before the pulpit, in the frock of St. Francis,
sat Prior Buckingham. this fancied triumph could
yet be read on his brow, for his pride was as great
as his ignorance.
Latimer began; he took up one by one the
arguments of the prior, and not deeming them
worthy of grave refutation, he exposed their
absurdity, and castigated their author in a fine vein
of irony and ridicule. Only children, he said, fail to
distinguish between the popular forms of speech
and their deeper meanings -- between the image
and the thing which the image represents. "For
instance," he continued, fixing his eye on
Buckingham, "if we see a fox painted preaching in
a friar's hood, nobody imagines that a fox is meant,
but that craft and hypocrisy are described, which
are so often found disguised in that garb."[4] The
blush of shame had replaced the pride on
Buckingham's brow, and rising up, he hastily
quitted the church, and sought his convent, there to
hide his confusion.
When the prior retired in discomfiture, a
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