Quote#Death
Must is not a word to be used to princes! Little man, little man, if…
Quote byElizabeth I of England · 1533–1603
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To Robert Cecil when he said, in her final illness (March 1603), that she must go to bed..
English (original)
Must is not a word to be used to princes! Little man, little man, if your father had lived, ye durst not have said so much: but thou knowest I must die, and that maketh thee so presumptuous.
— Elizabeth I of England
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