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Aug. 30th, 2007 12:13 pmI've reviewed and taught to the point where I can neither review nor teach without screaming for thirty seconds first, so it's just as well I'm finished with both my reviews and my teaching for the week.
To celebrate, I'm going to give you a last random quote from the works of Elizabeth I before I put the book away. Why do I like her so much? Maybe because her handwriting is almost as awful as mine. Or maybe because she doesn't despise language like this (to James VI, March 16, 1593):
"It vexeth me to see that those of whom the very fields of Scotland could, if they might speak, truly tell how their banners were displayed again your person, who divers nights did sentinel their actions, those self-same be but now bid to a ward who long ago, God wot, ought so have smarted as you need not now examine their treachery."
That "God wot" needs to be said with fervour, doesn't it?
Later in the letter Elizabeth says "Methinks I frame this letter like to a lamentation," which makes me wonder if she was reading a great deal of religious literature just then, especially as she signs it off "Now do I remember your cumber to read such scribbled lines and pray the almighty to cover you safely under His blessed wings."
To celebrate, I'm going to give you a last random quote from the works of Elizabeth I before I put the book away. Why do I like her so much? Maybe because her handwriting is almost as awful as mine. Or maybe because she doesn't despise language like this (to James VI, March 16, 1593):
"It vexeth me to see that those of whom the very fields of Scotland could, if they might speak, truly tell how their banners were displayed again your person, who divers nights did sentinel their actions, those self-same be but now bid to a ward who long ago, God wot, ought so have smarted as you need not now examine their treachery."
That "God wot" needs to be said with fervour, doesn't it?
Later in the letter Elizabeth says "Methinks I frame this letter like to a lamentation," which makes me wonder if she was reading a great deal of religious literature just then, especially as she signs it off "Now do I remember your cumber to read such scribbled lines and pray the almighty to cover you safely under His blessed wings."