Chapter XLII

This letter, to Sir Henry Goodyer, was written but a few weeks later than the preceding letter to Sir Henry Wotton. Their arrangement in sequence is one of John Donne, Junior's rare triumphs as an editor of correspondence. The two letters admirably illustrate the manysidedness of Donne's contact with the life of his time, social, political, and ecclesiastical. For the date, see note to XXXI, above.