In the same year a bill was promoted in Parliament _against aliens selling foreign wares among us by retail_, which Raleigh supported: 'Whereas it is pretended that for strangers it is against charity, against honour, against profit to expel them: in my opinion it is no matter of charity to relieve them. For first, such as fly hither have forsaken their own king: and religion is no pretext for them; for we have no Dutchmen here, but such as come from those princes where the gospel is preached; yet here they live disliking our church,' &c. Birch, _Life of Raleigh_, p. 163. I have thought it worth while to note these more recent references as Grosart refers to the rising against strangers on May-day, 1517. l. 29. _by your priesthood, &c._ In 1581 a proclamation was issued imposing the penalty of death on any Jesuits or seminary priests who entered the Queen's dominions, and in 1585 Parliament again decreed that all Jesuits and seminary priests were to leave the kingdom within forty days under the capital penalty of treason. The detection, imprisonment, torture, and execution of disguised priests form a considerable chapter in Elizabethan history. Donne's companion looks so strange that he runs the risk of arrest as a seminary priest from Rome, or Douay. See Strype's _Annals_, passim, and Meyer, _Die Katholische Kirche unter Elisabeth_, 1910. PAGE =160=, l. 35. _and saith_: 'saith' is the reading of all the earlier editions, although Chambers and the Grolier Club editor silently alter it to an exclamatory 'faith'--turning it into a statement which Donne immediately contradicts. The 'saith' is a harshly interpolated 'so he says'. One MS. adds 'he', and possibly the pronoun in some form has been dropped, e.g. 'sayth a speakes'. ll. 37-8. _Made of the Accents, &c._ It is perhaps rash to accept the 'no language' of _A25_, _Q_, and the Dyce MS. But the last two represent, I think, an early version of the _Satyres_, and 'no language' (like 'nill be delayed', _Epithal. made at Lincolns Inn_) is just the sort of reading that would tend to disappear in repeated transmission. It is too bold for the average copyist or editor. But its boldness is characteristic of Donne; it gives a much better sense; and it is echoed by Jonson in his _Discoveries_: 'Spenser in affecting the ancients writ no language.' In like manner Donne's companion, in affecting the accents and best phrases of all languages, spoke none. I confess that seems to me a more pointed remark than that he spoke one made up of these. l. 48. _Jovius or Surius_: Paolo Giovio, Bishop of Nocera, among many other works wrote _Historiarum sui temporis Libri XLV. 1553_. Chambers quotes from the _Nouvelle Biographie Générale_: 'Ses œœuvres sont pleines des mensonges dont profita sa cupidité.'