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Quotation from Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Elizabeth I
“to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.”
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Paragraph 1 (Sharp version, Cabala (1654))
Her pledge to share the soldiers' danger to the point of death.
Citation: "to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust." — Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Paragraph 1 (Sharp version, Cabala (1654)). (id elizabeth-speech-at-tilbury-q3)
Portrait: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Unknown author, Public domain.
