To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it
Elizabeth I
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me
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The past cannot be cured.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.
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I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
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There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
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I will make you shorter by the head.
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
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Works of Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth I at Tilbury.©2003 Anniina Jokinen Speech to the Troops at Tilbury 1My loving people, We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit our selves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already, for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns; and We do assure you in the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the mean time, my lieutenant general2 shall be in my stead, than whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people. Notes: 1. Delivered by Elizabeth to the land forces assembled at Tilbury (Essex) to repel the anticipated invasion of the Spanish Armada, 1588.2. Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester; he was the queen's favorite, once rumored to be her lover.
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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
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I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof.
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