Elizabeth I of England Quote

I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers.


speech to a Parliamentary deputation at Richmond, 12 November 1586, in Sir John Neale Elizabeth I and her Parliaments 1584–1601 (1957, from a report 'which the Queen herself heavily amended in her own hand'


I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers.

I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers.

I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers.

I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers.