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.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.