“Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.”

— Elizabeth I of England

Written with a diamond on her window at Woodstock (1555), published in Acts and Monuments (1563) by John Foxe.

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Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 … 1533–1603

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