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Quotation from Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Elizabeth I
“I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too,”
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Paragraph 2 (Sharp version, Cabala (1654))
The central antithesis of the speech, answering doubts about a woman leading in war.
Citation: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too," — Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Paragraph 2 (Sharp version, Cabala (1654)). (id elizabeth-speech-at-tilbury-q4)
Portrait: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Unknown author, Public domain.
