It Is Good To Jest, But Not

If I Follow The Inclination Of My Nature, It Is This: Beggar-woman And Single, Far Rather Than Queen And Married.

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.

[on Being Told Mary, Queen Of Scots, Was Taller Than She:] Then She Is Too High, For I Myself Am Neither Too High Nor Too Low.

Princes Have Big Ears Which Hear Far And Near.

... [ellipsis In Source] It Is True That The World Was Made In Six Days, But It Was By God, To Whose Power The Infirmity Of Men Isnot To Be Compared.