I never knew of how much love I was capable until I heard you speak today.

Out of your life's experience, out of all that you have learned of women good and evil, you--for a selfish, miserable purpose--would put the gyves upon my wrists, make me a pawn in your dark game; a pawn which you would lose without a thought as the game went on.
"If you must fight, my lord, if you must ruin Monsieur de la Foret and a poor Huguenot girl, do it by greater means than this.

You have power, you say.

Use it then; destroy us, if you will.

Send us to the Medici: bring us to the block, murder us--that were no new thing to Lord Leicester.