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As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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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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