Great Throughts Treasury

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William Prynne

English Puritan Pamphleteer, Lawyer, Author, Polemicist and Political Figure

"Plenty is the child of peace."

"A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monster... it being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men."

"It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times."