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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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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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