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Here lands as true a subject, being prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs. Before Thee, O God, I speak it, having none other friend but Thee alone.
Much suspected by me, I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood. I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married. We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world. There is only one Christ Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles. I have no desire to make windows into men's souls. It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin. Young heads take example of the ancient. |
Queen Elizabeth I of
England |
My Lords, do whatever you wish. As for me, I shall do no otherwise than pleases me.
Queen Elizabeth I; to Parliament on the succession issue
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
Queen Elizabeth I of England, born on September 7, 1533
Let this my discipline stand you in good stead of sorer strokes, never to tempt too far a Prince's patience.
Queen Elizabeth I; to Parliament
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Queen Elizabeth I; in a letter to Henry Sidney, 1565
With your head and my purse I could do anything.
Queen Elizabeth I; possibly apocryphal; reputedly spoken to William Cecil.
Unbridled persons whose mouths were never snaffled by the rider, did rashly ride.
Queen Elizabeth I; to Parliament, 1566, reasserting her authority
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Queen Elizabeth I; to the French Ambassador after he had praised her linguistic skills
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.
Queen Elizabeth I; to Parliament, 1576
You lawyers are so nice and precise in shifting and scanning every word and letter that many times you stand more upon form than matter, upon syllables than the sense of the law.
Queen Elizabeth I; to lawyers urging her to execute Mary,
Queen of Scots
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Queen Elizabeth I; in a letter, 1581
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Queen Elizabeth I; in Apophthegms, by Francis
Bacon, 1625
I thank God I am endued 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.
Queen Elizabeth I; speech, October, 1566
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.
Queen Elizabeth I; Tilbury speech, August 8, 1588, to her troops on the approach of the
Spanish Armada
To be a King and wear a crown is a thing more pleasant to them that see it, than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
I were content to hear matters argued and debated pro and contra as all princes must that will understand what is right, yet I look ever as it were upon a plain tablet wherein is written neither partility or prejudice.
There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel; I mean your love.
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my reign, that I have reigned with your loves.
I have ever used to set the last Judgement Day before mine eyes, and so to rule as I shall be judged to answer before a higher judge.
You may have many a wiser prince sitting in this seat, but you never have had, or shall have, any who loves you better.
It is not my desire to live or to reign longer than my life and reign shall be for your good.
Queen Elizabeth I; the 'Golden Speech', 1601
They hang the man and flog the woman,
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose,
That steals the common from the goose.
English nursery rhyme, c. 1764; see 'Tragedy of the commons', On
This Day in History, 1830 (below)
'Twas on the Longstone Lighthouse, there dwelt and English maid;
Pure as the air around her, of danger ne'er afraid;
One morning just at daybreak, a storm-tossed wreck she spied;
And tho' to try seemed madness, "I'll save the crew!' she cried.
And she pull'd away, o'er the rolling sea,
Over the waters blue –
'Help! Help!' she could hear the cry of the shipwreck'd crew –
But Grace had an English heart,
And the raging storm she brav'd –
She pull'd away, mid the dashing spray,
And the crew she saved!
Song about Grace
Darling, British heroine of the September 7, 1838
disaster
I have written my life in small
sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I thought of it, as I
remembered all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones
and unpleasant ones. That's how they come, and that is how we have to
take them. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done
and I feel satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing
better and made the best out of what life offered and life is what we make
it, always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses, American folk artist, born on September 7, 1860
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses
The world 'as got me snouted just a treat
Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul
An all them joys of life
I 'eld so sweet is up the pole!
CJ Dennis, Australian poet, born on September 7, 1876; The Sentimental Bloke
'Er name's Doreen ...Well, spare me bloomin' days!
You could er knocked me down wiv 'arf a brick!
Yes, me, that kids meself I know their ways,
An' 'as a name for smoogin' in our click!
I just lines up 'an tips the saucy wink.
But strike! The way she piled on dawg! Yer'd think
A bloke was givin' back-chat to the Queen....
'Er name's Doreen.
I seen 'er in the markit first uv all,
Inspectin' brums at Steeny Isaacs' stall.
I backs me barrer in – the same ole way -
An' sez, "Wot O! It's been a bonzer day.
'Ow is it fer a walk?" ... Oh, 'oly wars!
The sorta look she gimme! Jest becors
I tried to chat 'er, like you'd make a start
Wiv any tart.
CJ Dennis; ibid
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Humpback whales head home, Australia
At present there are around 44 species
of whale recorded in Australia, 35 of them toothed whales and nine baleen
whales.
This is the time of September's southward
migration for humpbacks, from the tropical breeding waters of northern Queensland, back
to the icy Antarctic.
Six thousand kilometres there and six thousand back, just to have sex – even in Australia, where long distances are the norm and God knows one can get desperate, that's a long way to go for a whale.
By October, the humpbacks will be passing
the aptly named port of Eden on the south coast of New
South Wales. This old whaling town holds its Whale Festival in
that month and whale watch cruises are most numerous in
October and
November.
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