Quote#God & Faith
Our realm and subjects have been long wanderers, walking astray,…
Quote byElizabeth I of England · 1533–1603
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Catholic bishops (6 December 1559), quoted in John Strype, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England, during Queen Elizabeth's Happy Reign: Together With an Appendix of Original Papers of State, Records, and Letters..
English (original)
Our realm and subjects have been long wanderers, walking astray, whilst they were under the tuition of Romish pastors, who advised them to own a wolf for their head, (in lieu of a careful shepherd,) whose inventions, heresies, and schisms be so numerous, that the flock of Christ have fed on poisonous shrubs for want of wholesome pastures... and your own Romish idolatry maketh you liars.
— Elizabeth I of England
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