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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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[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
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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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Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.
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