Dr. Hurlbutt’s quotation of the day: 24 June 2011

Posted on Friday, June 24, 2011, at 9:38 am, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.

“[T]he nobility both of England and Scotland [are] inferior to brute beasts, for they do that to women which no male among the common sort of beasts can be proved to do to their female: that is, they reverence them, and quake at their presence; they obey their commandments, and that against God. Wherefore I judge them not only subjects to women, but slaves of Satan, and servants of iniquity.”

  —  John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558).