THUS SPAKE THE QUEEN.

“I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, I may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.”
—Written in Elizabeth I’s copy of the Epistles of St Paul, August 1576 or after.

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