...first Parliament, said, "And in the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin." So also in a letter to the emperor (Burnct, vi. 442) she says, " Js on invenimus in nobis volunlatem...

...the state of marriage." " This," she added, " shall be for me sullicient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin." § 2. The negotiations for a peace with France, in progress at the time of Mary's death, were concluded...

...walk in that way with a resolute step: ' This shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.' Here, cried her critics, was a ' merry' tale. A virgin queen ! What man had ever heard—what man had...

...walk in that way with a resolute step: ' This shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.' Here, cried her critics, was a ' merry' tale. A virgin queen ! What man had ever heard—what man had...

...reply was furnished, but merely the statement that for her it would be enough that " a marble stone should declare that a queen, having reigned such A time, lived and died a virgin." It is not to be credited for a moment that she had any aversion from marriage in itself, but the question...

...she would consider the matter favorably, she replied, "For me it will be enough that a marble stone should declare that a queen having reigned such a time lived and died a virgin." — HUME: History of England, chap. xxxviii. In the same year, however, she declared, on hearing that...

...the state of marriage." " This," she added, " shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin." § 2. The negotiations for a peace with France, in progress at the time of Mary's death, were concluded...

...pleased to take to herself a husband, she said that for herself It would bo enough " that a marble stone should declare that a queen , having reigned such a time, lived and died & virgin." Most historians, however, agree that her1 right to the title was exceedingly ill-founded*...

...the state of marriage." " This," she added, " shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin." § ¡Í. The négociations for a peace with France, in progress at the time of Mary's death, were concluded...

...had resolved to live and die a virgin queen : " and for me it shall be sufficient that a marble stone declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin." She appears often to have wavered in her resolution, and, in her partiality for handsome courtiers...