DEar Sean,
There's a book by Frederick Chamberlain called Sayings of Queen
Elizabeth,London: John Lane; NY: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1923. I own it but
dont have it to hand; facts of pubn are from a list kindly shared with
me by Don Stump, who probably can answer your question off the top of
his head. Bill Haugard (author of Elizabeth and the English
Reformation)in his review of it warns that some of the attributions are
apocryphal.Don's list adds Roger Pringle, A Portrait of eliz. I, in the
Words of the Queen and Her Contemporaries, Totowa NJ Barnes and Noble,
1980.Carol
Sean Gordon Henry wrote:
> I've had a very frustrating afternoon trying to pin down a quotation
> attributed to Elizabeth I in a couple of different forms, but I've had
> little luck and thought I would turn your collective learning and
> generosity to see whether anyone could help me with it. The quotation runs,
>
> "Although I may not be a lion [or "lioness"], I am a lion's cub, and
> inherit many of his qualities [or "and I have a lion's
> heart"] [sometimes continuing, "and as long as the King of France treats
> me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but
> if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and
> offensive to him as I can"].
>
> Puttenham records an anecdote involving the queen crushing a crawling
> timeserver by comparing herself to a lion, but I can't find a source for
> the other quotation (apart from a very clear memory of Glenda Jackson
> delivering a similar line). I've been scouring EEBO and ransacking my
> copy of Neale's biography, which I had to hand, with no success. The
> internet has been singularly unhelpful as well, though as early modern
> scholars you may all be gratified to know how many websites devoted to
> self-motivation employ the Elizabeth quotation.
>
> Obviously not self-motivated enough,
> Sean.
>
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> Sean Henry
> Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
> The University of Western Ontario
> London, Ont., Canada
>
> "I’ve half a mind to shake myself
> Free just for once from London,
> To set my work upon the shelf
> And leave it done or undone."
>
> ("A Farm Walk," Christina Rossetti)
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