Letter from
John Donne
to Sir Henry Goodere, referring to a dispute between Jonson
and
Hugh
Holland
over the interpretation of some of Jonson's writing.
For the view that the letter refers to the naming of 'Inigo Lanthorn' in Bartholomew
Fair,
and that Holland had objected to this as an insult to Inigo Jones, see Bald (1970),
196-7, and Donaldson (2011),
334. The extract is taken from Edmund Gosse's transcription.
Eugene Giddens
I did your commandment with Mr.
Johnson; both our interests in him needed not to have been employed in it. There was
nothing obnoxious but the very name, and he hath changed that. If upon having read
it before to divers, it should be spoken that that person was concerned in it, he
sees not how Mr. Holland
will be excused in it, for he protests that no hearer but
Mr. Holland
apprehended it so.
Jo. DONNE.
From my Hospital, July 17, 1613.
Bibliography
Gosse (1899)