What I find most intriguing about Elizabeth's performance in the Tilbury Speech is the way in which she lays all of her cards out on the table, for the soldiers she is attempting to rally, without promises of false hope and meaningless "thank you for your services." She says, "I know have the body of a weak and feeble woman..." in order to get the white elephant out of the room, so to speak. By doing this, she continues to hold her place as a female ruler while at the same time using inviting language like "I come amongst you" and "being resolved in the midst and heat of the battle to live or die amongst you all" to convey that she wants them to feel she is acting in her part as sharing in their troubles, as wife would stand beside her husband's side no matter what. She is kind to her troops without sounding naive. She is also inescapably honest in every mention of the lengths she is willing to go in order to act honorably on behalf of her country.