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Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
Politician
Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
Gloriana
Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
Queen of England Bess
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Wherever

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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.
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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.
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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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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
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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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My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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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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Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
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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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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
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