There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

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.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

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