So Doth, So Is Religion: John Donne and Diplomatic Contexts in the Reformed Netherlands, 1619-1620

320 Pages·1988·18.456 MB·English

by  Paul R. Sellin

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So Doth, So Is Religion
Donne as shown in the portrait in the Deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral, inscribed
"Aetatis Suae 49 1620."
So Doth,
So Is Religion
John Donne and
Diplomatic Contexts in the
Reformed Netherlands, 1619-1620
Paul R. Sellin
University of Missouri Press
Columbia, 1988
Copyright © 1988 by
The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Printed and bound in the United States of America
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sellin, Paul R.
So doth, so is religion.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Donne, John, 1572-1631—Journeys—Netherlands.
2. Poets, English—Early modern, 1500-1700—Biography.
3. Church of England—England—Clergy—Biography.
4. Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of, 1580-1636.
5. Diplomats—Great Britain—Biography. 6. Great
Britain—Foreign relations—1603-1625. 7. Great
Britain—Foreign relations—Netherlands. 8. Nether¬
lands—Foreign relations—1556-1648. 9. Netherlands—
Foreign relations—Great Britain. I. Title.
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of the Very Revd. the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.
For Ake
. but the state is indeed Democraticall, the Merchant and the Tradesman
being predominant, the Gentrie now but few and poore; and even at the begin¬
ning the Prince of Orange saw it safer to relie upon the Townes then them:
Neither are the Gentrie so much engaged in the cause, the people having more
advantages in a free State, they in a Monarchy. Their care in government is very
exact and particular, by reason that every one hath an imediate interest in the
State; Such is the equality of Justice, that it renders every man satisfied; such the
public regularity, as a man may see their Lawes were made to guide, not to
entrappe; such their exactnesse in casting the expence of an Armie, as that it
shall be equally farre from superfluity and want, and as much order and certain-
tie in their acts of Warre, as in ours of Peace, teaching it to be both Civill and
rich. And they still retain that signe of a Commonwealth yet uncorrupted,
Private Povertie and Publike Weale: for no one private man there is exceeding
rich, and few very poore, and no State more sumptuous in all publike things."
—From Overbury's character of the Netherlands, Sir Thomas Overbury His
Observations in his Travailes upon the State of the XVII. Provinces as They Stood
Anno Dom. 1609. The Treatie of Peace being then on Foote (1626).