I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

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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.

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

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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.

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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

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There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

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Must! 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.

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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.

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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.

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