An unambiguous allusion to the Dutch in Massinger's 'Believe as You List.'

A historian in 1876 and another in 1897 observed the parallel between English dramatist Philip Massinger's 'Believe as You List' and Frederick V, the exiled King of Bohemia. Modern literary critics do not seem to subscribe to this observation nor its arguments, however. Yet there is at least one allusion in the play which adds an interesting Dutch dimension to scene II.ii.51-2 of the play and appears to substantiate the arguments of the 19th-century historians.