...Leicester. Yet she had told Parliament: "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."' She was not about to give up this carefully created image of herself; neither was she going to give...

...her posterity. Elizabeth herself told Parliament that it would be sufficient if "a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin." The cover of volume one of The Norton Anthology of English Literature has the Queen's virgin knot at...

...as heretofore, was still to remain unwedded ; that it would be enough for her ' that a marble stone should declare, that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.' But she left the matter so open that she seemed to the Commons to imply that she would many if it was...