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A poem by this writer which begins, “I grieve and dare not share my discontent” describes this writer's flagging love with the line “My (15[1])care is like my shadow in the sun.” This writer translated the poem “Miroir de l’âme pécheresse” (”mi-WHA de lame pesh-RESS”) under the title “A Godly Meditation of the Soul.” A group of soldiers are told that their ruler will “live and die amongst you all” and be the “rewarder of every one of (10[1])your virtues” in a work by this author. That (*) speech by this writer, which claims that “I (-5[1])know I have the body but of a weak, feeble, woman; (10[1])but I have the heart and stomach of a king,” was delivered to an army at Tilbury in 1588. For 10 points, name this poet and (0[1])orator, the namesake of a literary age whose writers include Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. ■END■

ANSWER: Elizabeth I
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, British Literature>
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