Question

Read the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Address to the Troops at Tilbury. Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself, that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects, and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die among you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdoms, and for my people, my honour, and my blood, even in the dust. In this excerpt, Queen Elizabeth is attempting to

Answer 1

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persuade the troops that this cause is so worthy that she is willing to sacrifice her own life.

Explanation:

Queen Elizabeth's address to the troops at Tilbury was to try to motivate them and convince them that the cause they are fighting for is a noble one that even she is willing to lay down her own life.

She tells them that she is in their midst "not for recreation" but to "live and die" with them and to "lay down" her life for God, her kingdom and honor.

She shows that she so believes in the cause that she is ready to die for it and trying to persuade the troops to join her.