I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth IMust! 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.
Elizabeth IIt has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
Elizabeth II grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
Elizabeth I