The queen’s mistake is to claim the power and the title. The lords cannot bear the thought of a woman’s rule; they cannot bear to even think that a woman can rule. It is as if they want to put her back into the confinement chamber. It is as if the king, her husband, by falling asleep, has set her free, free to command the kingdom; and that the duty of all the other great men is to return her to him. If they could put her to sleep like him, I think they would.
