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1 " She was not so forbearing when it came to bad breath. After receiving one French envoy, she exclaimed, ‘Good God! What shall I do if this man stay here, for I smell him an hour after he has gone!’ Her words were reported back to the envoy, who at once betook himself back to France in shame. "
― Alison Weir , The Life of Elizabeth I
2 " At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates’ wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be taken to her lodgings so that she could eat them later. "
3 " Again, she may have made the equation that sexual involvement was inextricably linked with death. "
4 " Maundy Thursday "
5 " Shrovetide. "
6 " large and excellent joints, the delicacies and cleanliness customary in Italy were wanting "
7 " importuned "
8 " sycophancy "
9 " Agnus Dei; "
10 " allayed, "
11 " assiduous "
12 " One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, ‘When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death "
13 " recusancy, "
14 " attainder, "
15 " Clytemnestra, "
16 " between Scylla and Charybdis, "
17 " crack of "
18 " abeyance, "
19 " d "
20 " prevaricated "
