Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

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.

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.