“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.”

Poem written in a glass window obvious to the Queen's eye, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). "Her Majesty, either espying or being shown it, did under-write, 'If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all'", Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol. i. p. 419.

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English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, a… 1554–1618

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