Portrait of Elizabeth.
Queen Elizabeth by Christoffel van Sichem

IN DEFIANCE OF FORTUNE.
by Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Never think you Fortúne can bear the sway
Where virtue's force can cause her to obey.



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  Source:
  Morley, Henry. English Writers. Vol IX.
  London: Cassell & Co., 1892. 91.


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