3 JULY 1947, Page 22

PROTESTANT

Sta,—That the word "Protestant" had the sense, of one who asserts, or affirms, is shown, I think, conclusively by the first two lines of Herrick's best-known poem.

"Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be."

The whole poem is, in fact, just one long assertion.—Yours faithfully,