se D'Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ ("Princess
Fairstar," 1682).

_Rosetta_, a bright, laughing little coquette, who runs away from home
because her father wants her to marry young Meadows, whom she has never
seen. She enters the service of Justice Woodcock. Now, it so happens
that Sir William Meadows wishes his son to marry Rosetta, whom he has
never seen, and he also runs away from home, and under the name of
Thomas becomes gardener to Justice Woodcock. Rosetta and young Meadows
here fall in love with each other, and the wishes of the two fathers are
accomplished.--Isaac Bickerstaff, _Love in a Village_ (1763).

In 1786 Mrs. Billington made her _d['e]but_ in "Rosetta," at once
dazzling the town with the brilliancy of her vocalization and the
flush of her beauty.--C. R. Leslie.

=Rosetta [Belmont]=, daughter of Sir Robert Belmont. Rosetta is
high-spirited, witty, confident, and of good spirits. "If you told her a
merry story, she would sigh; if a mournful one, she would laugh. For
_yes_ she would say 'no,' and for _no_, 'yes.'" She is in love with
Colonel Raymond, but shows her love by teasing him, and Colonel Raymond
is afraid of the capricious beauty.--Edward Moore, _The Foundling_
(1748).

=Rosiclear and Donzel del Phebo=, the heroine and hero of the _Mirror of
Knighthood_, a mediaeval romance.

=Rosinan'te= (4 _syl._), the steed of Don Quixote. The name implies "that
the horse had risen from a mean condition to the highest honor a steed
could achieve, for it was once a cart-horse, and was elevated into the
charger of a knight-errant."--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. ii. 1 (1605).

Rosinante was admirably drawn, so lean, lank, meagre, drooping,
sharp-backed, and raw-boned, as to excite much curiosity and
mirth.--Pt. I. ii. 1.

=Rosiphele= (3 _syl._), princess of Armenia; of surpassing beauty, but
insensible to love. She is made to submit to the yoke of Cupid, by a
vision which befalls her on a May-day ramble.--Gower, _Confessio
Amantis_ (1393).

=Rosmonda=, a tragedy in Italian, by John R. Ruccellai (1525). This is one
of the first regular tragedies of modern times. _Sophonisba_, by
Trissino, preceded it, being produced in 1514, and performed in 1515.

=Rosny= (_Sabina_), the young wife of Lord Sensitive. "Of noble parents,
who perished under the axe in France." The young orphan, "as much to be
admired for her virtues, as to be pitied for her misfortunes," fled to
Padua, wher