Spenser was at the time in his twenty-sixth year. Being rejected
by Rosalind, he did not marry till he was nearly 41, and then we are
told that Elizabeth "was the name of his mother, queen and wife"
(_Sonnet_, 74). In the _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, "the country lass" (Rosalind) is
introduced dancing with the Graces, and the poet says she is worthy to
be the fourth (bk. vi. 10, 16). In 1595 appeared the _Epithala'mion_, in
which the recent marriage is celebrated.--Ed. Spenser, _Shepheardes
Calendar_, i., vi. (1579).

"Rosalinde" is an anagram for Rose Daniel, evidently a well-educated
young lady of the north, and probably the "Lady Mirabella" of the
_Fa[:e]ry Queen_, vi. 7, 8. Spenser calls her "the widow's daughter of
the glen" (ecl. iv.), supposed to be either Burnley or Colne, near
Hurstwood, in Yorkshire. Ecl. i. is the plaint of Colin for the loss of
Rosalind. Ecl. vi. is a dialogue between Colin and Hobbinol, his friend,
in which Colin laments, and Hobbinol tries to comfort him. Ecl. xii. is
a similar lament to ecl. i. Rose Daniel married John Florio, the
lexicographer, the "Holofern[^e]s" of Shakespeare.

_Rosalind_, daughter of the banished duke who went to live in the forest
of Arden. Rosalind was retained in her uncle's court as the companion of
his daughter, Celia; but when the usurper banished her, Celia resolved
to be her companion, and, for greater security, Rosalind dressed as a
boy, and assumed the name of Ganymede, while Celia dressed as a peasant
girl, and assumed the name of Ali[=e]na. The two girls went to the
forest of Arden, and lodged for a time in a hut; but they had not been
long there when Orlando encountered them. Orlando and Rosalind had met
before at a wrestling match, and the acquaintance was now renewed;
Ganymede resumed her proper apparel, and the two were married, with the
sanction of the duke.--Shakespeare, _As You Like It_ (1598).

Nor shall the griefs of Lear be alleviated, or the charms and wit
of Rosalind be abated by time.--N. Drake, M.D., _Shakespeare and
His Times_, ii. 554 (1817).

=Rosaline=, the niece of Capulet, with whom Romeo was in love before he
saw Juliet. Mercutio calls her "a pale-hearted wench," and Romeo says
she did not "grace for grace and love for love allow," like
Juliet.--Shakespeare, _Romeo and Juliet_ (1598).

[Asterism] Rosaline is frequently mentioned in the first act of the
play, but is not one of the _dramatis personae_.

_Rosaline_, a lady in