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When I was fair and young, then favor graced me.

Of many was I sought their mistress for to be.

But I did scorn them all and answered them therefore:

Go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more.

How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe,

How many sighing hearts I have not skill to show,

But I the prouder grew and still this spake therefore:

Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me no more.

Then spake fair Venus’ son, that proud victorious boy,

Saying: You dainty dame, for that you be so coy,

I will so pluck your plumes as you shall say no more:

Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me no more.

As soon as he had said, such change grew in my breast

That neither night nor day I could take any rest.

Wherefore I did repent that I had said before:

Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me no more.

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She could speak many languages.

In addition to her native English, Queen Elizabeth I was known to be fluent in French, Italian, and Latin. The Queen is also believed to have spoken Spanish, Welsh, Irish, Flemish, and Greek.

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She nearly didn't become Queen at all.
Her siblings, Edward and Mary ruled before her, until they passed. Edward named his cousin, Jane, his successor, bumping Elizabeth down another spot. Jane passed 13 days after she became Queen, and Elizabeth was her successor.

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She was the only English queen who never married.

Although  many men went for her hand, Elizabeth never took a husband. She is the only English queen to not do so. Although eight kings before her also remained lifelong bachelors

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"However, could her rejection be based on the fact that they want her as their mistress rather as a lover? Because there is no sense of intimacy and passion in the men’s request." (Literature Encore).

"The second stanza expatiates on the depth of the suffering she wrecks on men, as they weep and sigh. Instead of showing sympathy for these men, she gets more proud" (Literature Encore).

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Queen Elizabeth came down with smallpox in the early 1560's. Elizabeth I suffered facial scarring and hair loss. By looking at her, nobody would have known it. She kept up appearances with a large supply of  wigs and the application of white makeup over her face, which was actually keeping with the style of the era.

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Before she was queen, she was a political prisoner.

"In 1554, Elizabeth was tried and imprisoned on suspicion of abetting Wyatt’s Rebellion, an uprising against Queen Mary I that many believed to be motivated by the quest for Protestant liberation" (Mental Floss).

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“15 Royally Amazing Facts About Queen Elizabeth I.” Mental Floss, 15 Jan. 2015,
“Ten Facts about Queen Elizabeth I.” Ten Facts about Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603)
Literature. “Poetry.” Literature Encore

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Beauty is on the inside, and although one is outwardly beautiful, their personality makes or breaks their character.
- "I will so pluck your plumes as you shall say no more" (Queen Elizabeth, 11). Cupid threatens the Queen, stating that he will take away her beauty so she is no longer able to treat her suitors the way she does.
- "As soon as he had said, such change grew in my breast, That neither night nor day I could take any rest" (Queen Elizabeth, 13-14). After Cupid's threat, the Queen cannot stop thinking of how she has been acting. She knows that she is beautiful, but the way she treats people is unacceptable.
- "Wherefore I did repent that I had said before: Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me no more" (Queen Elizabeth, 15-16). The Queen regrets each time she has ever told a man to leave her alone because she realizes how bitter she has been to the suitors who seek her love.