The love affairs of Mary Queen of Scots

"WHEN in the great hall at Worms, on that evermemorable April day in 1521, before the panicstricken princes, Luther insolently flung at the Emperor his defiance of the mediaeval Church, the crash, though all unheard by the ears of men, shook to their base the rotting foundations upon which for hundreds of years the institutions of Europe had rested."