<P> Rosalynde is the heroine of Lodge's Euphues' Golden Legacy .' Faire Rosalind' had, however, at this time, acquired a fresh poetic fame as the object of Spenser's attachment, celebrated in his Shephearde's Calendar, 1579, and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, 1595 .' Of all the sweet feminine names compounded from Rosa, that of Rosa - linda seems to be the most elegant, and therefore most befitting that particular character of ideal beauty which the dramatist here assigns to his imaginary princess . </P> <P> Ganymede, the name she assumes in her disguise as a forest youth, is that of' Jove's own page' (I, iii, 127), the most beautiful of all mortals, son of Tros and Callirrhoe, chosen by Jupiter to be his cup - bearer, and to dwell among the gods as his chosen servant . </P>

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