Answer:
The allegory is put forward by Governor John Winthrop in the book "The Nature of America from Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority by Roger Lundin
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Explanation:
Somewhere in the book, the author compares three historical events in America.
Puritan settlers had entertained themselves to a mouse/snake battle. The mouse won. Pastor Wilson explained the occurrence as a typology of the founding of America. According to him, the poor contemptible people are the Native Americans, while the snake was the Europeans.
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