"When I was fair and young, then favor graced me./Of many was I sought their mistress for to be./But I did scorn them all and answered them therefore:/Go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more."
Queen Elizabeth I was a conceited young woman who disparaged men that were intent to court her. Due to her superiority, she shattered countless hearts and triggered young men’s tears. The queen viewed the young men’s romantic pitches as aggravation.
"My care is like my shadow in the sun,/Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,/Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done./His too familiar care doth make me rue it./No means I find to rid him from my breast,/Till by the end of things it be supprest."
Queen Elizabeth I is overwhelmed by a love instinct following “Monsieur’s departure.” If it were up to Queen Elizabeth I, she would not have endorsed him to depart because she is besotted by him. She cannot expunge Monsieur from her mind. Evidently, being an aristocrat does not immunize the queen from the badgering Eros.
"The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,/And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy;"
Queen Elizabeth I is apprehensive about the probability of her enemies ambushing her in the future. She is bothered due to the vagueness of the future. Queen Elizabeth I is judicious to recognize the repercussions of her paranoia, but her qualms elicit the persistent disquiet regarding the future.
"Much suspected by me,/Nothing proved can be,"
Queen Elizabeth I has reservations which she cannot endorse whether they are factual or illusory. The two –line poem characterizes Queen Elizabeth I as a skeptical person who has an inclination for hesitancy.
