"For you must think hit ys some marvelous cause [...] that forceth me thus to be cause almost of the ruyne of my none [own] howse; for ther ys no lykelyhoode that any of our boddyes of menkind lyke to have ayres; my brother you se long maryed and not lykke to have Children, yet resteth so now in myself, and yet such occasions ys ther [...] as yf I shuld marry I am seure never to have favor of them that I had rather yet never have wyfe than lose them, yet ys ther nothing in the world next that favor that I wold not gyve to be in hope of leaving some childern behind me, being nowe the last of our howse."
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From a letter to his mistress, the dowager Lady Sheffield (before 1574); quoted in Simon Adams, "Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester", ODNB, online ed. (2004); see also: Conyers Read, "A Letter from Robert, Earl of Leicester, to a Lady", The Huntington Library Bulletin, no. 9 (April 1936), pp. 15–26
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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
, KG, PC (24 June 1532 – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years.
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