Pope Sixtus V (1520–1590) pope
On Queen Elizabeth I of England, in 1587; reported in Colin Bingham, Men and Affairs: A Modern Miscellany (1967), p. 48.
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“I would rather lose all my lands and a hundred lives than be king over heretics.”
David A. Pharies, A brief history of the Spanish language (2007), p. 147.
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