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preludes, and addresses), appears to have been not only the 

 Menalcas* of the Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, who had 

 " under-fonged" the faithless Rosalinde, but also the Holo- 

 FERNEs, and Don Adriano de Armado of Shakespeare's 

 more laughable satire, in his Love's Labour Lost. 



Having thus identified Rose Daniel with Rosalinde, and 

 Rosalinde with Mirabella, by means of their respective union 

 with the same person identified as John Florio (or the Reso- 

 lute), Menalcas in the Shepherd's Calender, and the Carl 

 Disdain in the Faerie Queen, Mr. Halpin proceeds to sum up 

 the results of Spenser's first disappointed passion in the fol- 

 lowing words : 



" Whatever happiness poor Rose Daniel may have enjoyed 

 in the domestic virtues and real talents of such a husband as 

 Florio, it is certain that, if she were a sensible and sensitive 

 woman, she must have experienced great pain and annoyance 

 from the ridicule and hostility to which his pride, petulance, 

 and ill-temper constantly exposed him in public. In this re- 

 spect her sufferings seem to have fed the vengeance of her dis- 

 carded, but unforgiving and ungenerous suitor. But she may 

 have had her consolations, too. Florio was highly esteemed 

 by the nobility of Elizabeth's days, and was favoured in the 

 Court of James I. That he was an attached and affectionate 

 husband, his last will and testament gives ample and touching 

 evidence {see " New Illustrations of Shakespeare, by the Rev. 

 Joseph Hunter, vol. ii. p. 280)." 



* This name is, from its Greek derivation, homonymous with " the Reso- 

 lute." It need hardly be observed that it is derived from fitvoQ and oKkt), 

 both signifying modifications of force, mental or bodily. They are repeatedly 

 used together as equivalents, thus, fitviOQ d'a\Kijg re. XaQoifiai. II. z. 265. 

 In Liddel and Scott's edition of Passow's Greek-English Lexicon, ntvoQ in 

 composition is said to " bear always a collateral notion of resolve and firm- 

 ness :" and here we have the very notion expressed by the very word we want. 

 Menalcas is, therefore, the appropriate and expressive nom de guerre of the 

 Resolute. 



