I Have No Desire To

[to Edward De Vere, Earl Of Oxford, On His Return From Self-imposed Exile, Occasioned By The Embarrassing Flatulence He Had Experienced In The Presence Of The Queen:] My Lord, I Had Forgot The Fart.

A Strength To Harm Is Perilous In The Hand Of An Ambitious Head.

Mr. Doctor, That Loose Gown Becomes You So Well I Wonder Your Notions Should Be So Narrow.

I Have The Heart Of A Man, Not A Woman, And I Am Not Afraid Of Anything.

Though I Am Not Imperial, And Though Elizabeth May Not Deserve It, The Queen Of England Will Easily Deserve To Have An Emperor's Son To Marry.