“And Yet I Am My Own Executioner”: Rumor, Suicide, and Textual Authority in John Donne’s Devotions

“That how desperate soever our case be, how irremdiable soever our state, we our selfes, and not God, are the cause of that desperate irremediableness … There is no such matter, there is no such desperate irremediablenes declared to any particular conscience, as is imagind, but you, any, mare returne to me, when you will, and I will receive you.”