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17) Creses' casuistical "seeming not to contend" echoes Roxana's earlier advice to Cloria that she give her "seeming consent" to an unwanted proposal of marriage: "which promise cannot binde at all, not onely in respect of your former obligation to Narcissus, but also in regard you are a prisoner, and therefore not tied to any contract made in such a state. For their constant discussion of their own motives and their casuistical dismissal of inconvenient facts bore witness in their own eyes to their moral concern. In terms of the local English history that directly involved Donne, the Jacobean Oath of Allegiance created a whole new territory for casuistical debate, since English Catholics, forbidden by the pope to take the Oath, were faced by a conflict between two binding imperatives. |
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