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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
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Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
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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. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.
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It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.
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Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.
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