Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from The Arcadia Fund https://archive.org/details/sodothsoisreligiOOsell 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. PR2248.S36 1988 821'.3 87-19124 ISBN 0-8262-0666-2 (alk. paper) @™ This paper meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984. Frontispiece photo by Thomas-Photos, Oxford, by kind permission 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).