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It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf her confessor.

“The piquant Converte Angliam, c. 1685 (British Museum) (Fig. 5), which appears on the book’s dust jacket, adopts the late Reformation trope of randy Catholic confessors preying on their flock: a wolf dressed in a friar’s robe prepares to devour a lady at confession.”