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  • When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,
    Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;
    But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore,
    "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere!
    Importune me no more!

    Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.304, University of Chicago Press
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