J. E. Neale's The Saying Of Queen Elizabeth

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For many contemporary historians, the Tilbury talk provides an excellent example of Elizabeth’s ability to employ language in an appropriate, concise and strategic oration. In the speech jump out at the sight, the stirring rhetoric of the Queen to project a vigorous expression of union and defiance in opposition to potential invaders. The text veracity has been accepted as genuine by some renowned historians as J.E. Neale in an article on `The Saying of Queen Elizabeth´. "I see no serious reason for rejecting the speech...some of the phrases have every appearance of being the Queen's, and the whole tone of the speech is surely very much in keeping even with the few Elizabethan quotations that I have had room for in this article...I have little