attendance on the princess of France. A sharp wit
was wedded to her will, and "two pitch balls were stuck in her face for
eyes." Rosaline is called "a merry, nimble, stirring spirit." Biron, a
lord in attendance on Ferdinand, king of Navarre, proposes marriage to
her, but she replies:

You must be purged first, your sins are racked ...
Therefore if you my favor mean to get,
A twelvemonth shall you spend, and never rest,
But seek the weary beds of people sick.

Shakespeare, _Love's Labor's Lost_ (1594).

=Rosalu'ra=, the airy daughter of Nantolet, beloved by Belleur.--Beaumont
and Fletcher, _The Wild-goose Chase_ (1652).

=Ros'amond= (_The Fair_), Jane Clifford, daughter of Walter, Lord
Clifford. The lady was loved, not wisely, but too well, by Henry II.,
who kept her for concealment in a labyrinth at Woodstock. Queen Eleanor
compelled the frail fair one to swallow poison (1777).

She was the fayre daughter of Walter, Lord Clifford.... Henry made
for her a house of wonderfull working, so that no man or woman
might come to her. This house was named "Labyrinthus," and was
wrought like unto a knot, in a garden called a maze. But the queen
came to her by a clue of thredde, and so dealt with her that she
lived not long after. She was buried at Godstow, in a house of
nunnes, with these verses upon her tombe:

Hic jacet in tumba Rosa mundi, non Rosa munda;
Non redolet, sed olet, quae redolere solet.

_Here Rose the graced, not Rose the chaste, reposes;
The smell that rises is no smell of roses._

[Asterism] The subject has been a great favorite with poets. We have in
English the following tragedies:--_The Complaint of Rosamond_, by S.
Daniel (before 1619); _Henry II.... with the Death of Rosamond_, either
Bancroft or Mountford (1693); _Rosamond_, by Addison (1706); _Henry and
Rosamond_, by Hawkins (1749); _Fair Rosamond_, by Tennyson (1879). In
Italian, _Rosmonda_, by Rucellai (1525). In Spanish, _Rosmunda_, by Gil
y Zarate (1840). We have also _Rosamond_, an opera, by Dr. Arne (1733);
and _Rosamonde_, a poem in French, by C. Briffaut (1813). Sir Walter
Scott has introduced the beautiful soiled dove in two of his
novels--_The Talisman_ and _Woodstock_.

[Asterism] Dryden says her name was _Jane_:

Jane Clifford was her name, as books aver:
"Fair Rosamond" was but her _nom de guerre_.

We rede that in Englande was a king that