If our loom be framed with rotten hurdles, when our web is well-ny done, our work is yet to begin.

Against mischance and dark discoveries my mind, with knowledge hidden from you, hath been firmly arrayed.

If it be in your thought that I am set against a marriage which shall serve the nation, purge yourselves, friends, of that sort of heresy, for the belief is awry.

Though I think that to be one and always one, neither mated nor mothering, be good for a private woman, for a prince it is not meet.

Therefore, say to my Lords and Commons that I am more concerned for what shall chance to England when I am gone than to linger out my living thread.