The Enigma of John Donne
Briefly

During the 16th century, the English were unusually spirited in their destruction of Catholics.If you were unlucky, you might be strung up by the neck, cut down before you died, have your "privy members" hacked off, your bowels taken out and burned, your head removed, and your remainders chopped into four pieces and tossed into some ignoble hole or ditch, according to the wishes of the king or queen.
Read at The Nation
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