_Eagles' Feathers._--Will any of the correspondents of "N. & Q." favour
me with an explanation of the allusion in the following passage?
"You must cast away the workes of darknes, and then put on the
armour of light: first you must put off, and then put on. _As the
eagle's feathers will not lie with any other feathers, but consume
them which lie with them_: so the wedding garment will not bee
worne with filthie garments," &c.
The passage is from a sermon on Rom. xiii. 14., entitled "The Wedding
Garment." It is contained in a volume in small 4to. (Lond. 1614), the
earlier portion of which contains six sermons by Maister _Henry Smith_;
and the latter, in which the above occurs, though it has no distinct
title-page, yet appears, from style and general appearance, to be by the
same author.