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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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Rosalind

Rosalinde) is also a feigned name, which being wel ordered, wil bewray the very name of hys loue and mistresse, whom by that name he coloureth. So as Ouide shadoweth hys loue vnder the name of Corynna, which of some is supposed to be Iulia, themperor Augustus his daughter, and wyfe to Agryppa. So doth Aruntius Stella euery where call his Lady Asteris and Ianthis, albe it is well knowen that her right name was Violantilla: as witnesseth Statius in his Epithalamium. And so the famous Paragone of Italy, Madonna Coelia in her letters enuelopeth her selfe vnder the name of Zima: and Petron [vnder] the name of Bellochia. And this generally hath bene a common custome of counterfeicting the names of secret Personages.
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The Shepheardes Calender: January    Edmund Spenser    EK's gloss

Related:  His clownish gifts,  Stoure,  And thou vnlucky Muse, that wontst to ease,  Art made a myrrhour, to behold my plight:,  My timely buds with wayling all are wasted:,  Yet for thou pleasest not, where most I would:,  I loue thilke lasse, (alas why doe I loue?),  Wherefore my pype, albee rude Pan thou please,,  Virgil,  All so my lustfull leafe is drye and sere,  Wherein I sawe so fayre a sight, as shee.,  John Milton,  vnnethes,  Yet all for naught: [such] sight hath bred my bane.,  So broke his oaten pype, and downe dyd lye.,  Both pype and Muse, shall sore the while abye.,  The blossome, which my braunch of youth did beare,,  My musing mynd, yet canst not, when thou should:,  A thousand sithes I curse that carefull hower,,  EK's gloss,  Shepheards deuise she hateth as the snake,,  And now is come thy wynters stormy state,,  I loue,  auaile,  His kiddes, his cracknelles, and his early fruit.,  neighbour towne,  With breathed sighes is blowne away, & blasted,,  Wherein I longd the neighbour towne to see:,  And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,,  overhaile,  The Shepheardes Calender: January,  And of my rurall musick holdeth scorne.,  Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue,,  Whilome thy fresh spring flowrd, and after hasted,  Colin them gives to Rosalind againe.,  As on your boughes the ysicles depend.,  Ah foolish Hobbinol, thy gyfts bene vayne:,  And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne?),  Albee my loue he seeke with dayly suit:,  Hobbinol,  couth,  Colins Embleme.,  Sere,  Thy mantle mard, wherein thou mas-kedst late.,  Teaching notes, 10 Sept. 2014,  Ah God, that loue should breede both ioy and payne.,  It is not Hobbinol, wherefore I plaine,,  His clownish gifts and curtsies I disdaine,,  sithes,  Colin clout,  Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted,,  And eke tenne thousand sithes I blesse the stoure,,  And laughes the songes, that Colin Clout doth make.,  Thy sommer prowde with Daffadillies dight.,  Edmund Spenser,  Pastoral,  Epic