This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land.”
—K. Richard II.
And the passionate devotion to Elizabeth as the embodiment of the national greatness:—
“She shall be loved and feared; her own shall bless her:
In her days every man shall eat in safety
Under his own vine, what he plants, and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.”
—K. Henry VIII.
Elizabeth the Gloriana of Spenser.
3. She saved England from absorption by Spain or France, and from fear of future invasion.