vassal quotes

God's silly vassal.

-Melville, Andrew
  Said of (and to) King  James VI, as reported in his nephew James Melville's Diary:'Mr  Andrew bore him down and uttered the commission as from the mighty God, calling him but ''God's silly vassal''.'

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