"Elizabeth I" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Queen Elizabeth I know perfectly; he outbid me for it; is his villa finished? I am well pleased with the design in Chambers. I have been my out-of-town with Lord Waldecrave, Selwyn, and Williams; it was melancholy the missing poor Edgecombe, who was constantly of the Christmas and Easter ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... no be had for naething, I 'll no be had for naething, I tell ye, lads, that 's ae thing, So ye needna follow me. Oh, the change is most surprising, Last year I was plain Betty Brown, Now to me they 're a' aspiring,— The fair Elizabeth I am grown! ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various |
