Replied the Panther: grant such presence were,

Yet in your sense I never owned it there.

A real virtue we by faith receive,

And that we in the sacrament believe.—

Then, said the Hind, as you the matter state,

Not only Jesuits can equivocate;

For real, as you now the word expound,

From solid substance dwindles to a sound.

Methinks, an Æsop's fable you repeat;

You know who took the shadow for the meat: