A Fool Too Late Bewares When All

There Will Never Queen Sit In My Seat With More Zeal To My Country, Care To My Subjects And That Will Sooner With Willingness Venture Her Life For Your Good And Safety Than Myself. For It Is My Desire To Live Nor Reign No Longer Than My Life And Reign Shall Be For Your Good. And Though You Have Had, And May Have, Many Princes More Mighty And Wise Sitting In This Seat, Yet You Never Had Nor Shall Have, Any That Will Be More Careful And Loving.

[when Opposed By Leaders Of Her Council:] I Will Make You Shorter By The Head!

The Name Of A Successor Is Like The Tolling Of My Own Death-bell!

I Do Not Choose That My Grave Should Be Dug While I Am Still Alive.

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