I’m trying to track down a quotation that I’m pretty sure I read in one of Sayers’ essays in “Unpopular Opinions” - but the only copy of the book in our local library system is signed out for a month.
I’ve checked Google books, but it looks like Unpopular Opinions is still in copyright, so not available there.
Any Dopers out there who 1) have access to it, and 2) would be willing to look for the quotation for me?
It’s a quotation from Elizabeth I to her judges, telling them to “Have a care for my people.” I need a source for it for a project I’m working on. Googling the quote itself gets a couple of hits, but nothing that I can really rely on for a paper I’m working on.
Are there any college libraries near The Glitter Palace that might have it? Even if you can’t check it out, you’d be able to read it there and find the relevant passage.
From Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With …, Volumes 6-7, By Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland, from Google Books.
“Have a care over my people. You have my people do you that which I ought to do. They are my people. Every man oppresseth and spoileth them without mercy. They cannot revenge their quarrel nor help themselves. See unto them see unto them for they are my charge. l charge you even as God hath charged me. Icare not for myself my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God whoever succeedeth me be as careful as lam. They who know what cares l bear would not think I took any great joy in wearing a crown.”
There is a university library, but that’s the one that’s already checked out for the month. Maybe I’ll see about getting it to re-read later on, but cuberdon’s given me an alternative source - since it’s earlier, it may well be the one that Sayers was relying on.
Rats, logged on too late as usual. Well, you already have the more complete quote; but for the record, here it is from my 1st edition of Unpopular Opinions, with punctuation/italics intact:
The rest of the quote, again with proper punctuation (no offense to curbodon):
This quote’s punctuation, from the earliest reference I could find, is from volume I of John Strype’s Annals of the Reformation in England, in 4 volumes: vol. I (1709–1725); vol. II 1725; vol. III 1728; vol. IV 1731.
FWIW, Strype dates this statement as having been said to her council in 1569.
Wow, I’m tired. The original finder of the quote was cuberdon (my apologies!), and the essay is of course “The English Language,” not “The Engish Language.” Doy!
By the way, Bridget Burke, thanks for introducing me to WorldCat - very helpful resource! And yes, all the hits for libraries close to me are university libraries: the first 12 hits covered three provinces and four states, all to university libraries.