“Madam, if I may. A prince should never flinch from being blamed for...”

Walsingham

[to Elizabeth]

Madam, if I may. A prince should never flinch from being blamed for acts of ruthlessness which are necessary for safeguarding the state and their own person. You must take these things so much to heart that you do not fear to strike. Even the very nearest that you have if they be implicated.

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