rtues, wishing
him to go forward in such haughty deeds, that he might attain to the
glory of his father's honorable fortunes.

[Footnote 1: wonder.]

As the king and lords graced him with embracing, so the ladies favored
him with their looks, especially Rosalynde, whom the beauty and valor
of Rosader had already touched: but she accounted love a toy, and
fancy a momentary passion, that as it was taken in with a gaze, might
be shaken off with a wink, and therefore feared not to dally in the
flame; and to make Rosader know she affected him, took from her neck a
jewel, and sent it by a page to the young gentleman. The prize that
Venus gave to Paris was not half so pleasing to the Troyan as this gem
was to Rosader; for if fortune had sworn to make him sole monarch of
the world, he would rather have refused such dignity, than have lost
the jewel sent him by Rosalynde. To return her with the like he was
unfurnished, and yet that he might more than in his looks discover his
affection, he stepped into a tent, and taking pen and paper writ this
fancy:

Two suns at once from one fair heaven there shined,
Ten branches from two boughs, tipped all with roses,
Pure locks more golden than is gold refined,
Two pearled rows that nature's pride encloses;
Two mounts fair marble-white, down-soft and dainty,
A snow-dyed orb, where love increased by pleasure
Full woeful makes my heart, and body fainty:
Her fair (my woe) exceeds all thought and measure.
In lines confused my luckless harm appeareth,
Whom sorrow clouds, whom pleasant smiling cleareth.

This sonnet he sent to Rosalynde, which when she read she blushed, but
with a sweet content in that she perceived love had allotted her so
amorous a servant.

Leaving her to her new entertained fancies, again to Rosader, who
triumphing in the glory of this conquest, accompanied with a troop of
young gentlemen that were desirous to be his familiars, went home to
his brother Saladyne's, who was walking before the gates, to hear what
success his brother Rosader should have, assuring himself of his
death, and devising how with dissimuled sorrow to celebrate his
funerals. As he was in his thought, he cast up his eye, and saw where
Rosader returned with the garland on his head, as having won the
prize, accompanied with a crew of boon companions. Grieved at this, he
stepped in and shut the gate. Rosader seeing this, and not looking for
such unkind