When you kill these Flemish boars, do not spare the sows; them I would have spitted.

During the Flemish war of 1302. Reported in Pierce Butler, Woman in All Ages and in All Countries, vol. 5: Mediæval France (Philadelphia, 1907), p. 264. See: Jacques de Meyer, Annales rerum Flandricarum, p. 93: Ut apros quidem, hoc est viros, hastis, sed sues verutis confoderent, infesta admodum mulieribus, quas sues vocabat, ob fastum illum femineum visum a se Brugis.—The men she would have speared, the women spitted, "being," says Meyer, "particularly hostile to the latter on account of the bravery of their apparel." Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York, 1845), p. 356, note