"She never closde her eare to heare, the rightous man distrest, Nor never sparde her hande to helpe, wher wrong or power opprest. when all was wracke, she was the porte, from peryll unto joye, when all was spoyle, she spared all, she pitied to distroye."
— Mary I of England

January 1, 1970

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Anonymous, The Epitaphe upon the Death of the Most Excellent and our late vertuous Quene Marie, deceased, augmented by the first Author (c. 1558–1559)