an early appeal of theatre

You could laugh which was forbidden in church.

the most successful pirate in history

Sir Francis Drake

Mary Queen of Scots:

You are hard.

Elizabeth I:

It is the business of living that has made me so.

Tudor Spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I

"See and keep silent." also "There is less danger in fearing too much than too little."

- Sir Francis Walsingham [c. 1532 – 1590]