As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to li…

Elizabeth I
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As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason. ✨ Speech to Parliament, 1586, in William Camden 'Annales rerum anglicanum' (1615) bk. 3
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