I will have here but one mistress and no master.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

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

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

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