There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.