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Title: Rosalynde
or, Euphues' Golden Legacy
Author: Thomas Lodge
Editor: Edward Chauncey Baldwin
Release Date: November 29, 2005 [EBook #17181]
Language: English
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ROSALYNDE OR, EUPHUES' GOLDEN LEGACY
BY
THOMAS LODGE
EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY
EDWARD CHAUNCEY BALDWIN, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
STANDARD
ENGLISH
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PREFACE
This edition of Lodge's "Rosalynde" has grown out of a need felt by the
editor for an example of Elizabethan prose suitable for use in a general
survey course in English, designed for college freshmen. "Rosalynde,"
of all the books that were considered, seemed on the whole best to
fulfill the desired conditions. As a pastoral romance it belongs to a
class of books which, if not peculiar to the Elizabethan age, is at least
thoroughly representative of it. Moreover, the story is entirely
unobjectionable, nothing being found in it that could offend any reader.
The "Rosalynde," being one of the shortest of the prose romances, is
not open to the objections that might be urged against the more famous,
but also more discursive, "Arcadia" of Sidney. Its close relations with

Shakespeare's "As You Like It," which is also read in the course, and
its added interest as one of the precursors of the modern novel,
additionally recommend it. Finally, its coherent plot, its freedom from
digressions, and its happy ending, make it seem likely to interest
students, in spite of the
conventionality of the pastoral form.
The annotation has been confined to giving the meanings of obsolete or
unusual words. There are many mythological allusions that call for
explanation; but this, it is thought, any good dictionary of mythology
will supply. The list of questions is not of course exhaustive, and is
intended to be merely suggestive of the kind of study the college
student in an introductory course in English might well be fitted to
undertake. The text is that of the Hunterian Club edition of Lodge's
"Works." This reprint is of the first edition, that of 1590, except that
(since the only known copy of the first edition of "Rosalynde" is
imperfect) a few pages (121-127 of this edition) were reprinted from
the second edition of 1592. The spelling and punctuation have to some
extent been modernized--the latter having been altered only where
changes serve to make the author's meaning more obvious.
The editor acknowledges his indebtedness to the scholarly edition of
Lodge's "Rosalynde" by W.W. Greg (London and New York, 1907),
particularly to the glossarial index, which has supplied the meanings of
some words about which the editor was in considerable doubt. Thanks
are due, also, to my colleague Mr. Arthur Tietje for his helpful
suggestions in preparing the list of questions.
E.C.B.
URBANA, ILLINOIS
CONTENTS
Page
INTRODUCTION vii
Birth and Education; Early Work; Later Work and Death; Source of

"Rosalynde": "The Tale of Gamelyn"; Form: A
Pastoral Romance;
Spanish Influence; Style: Euphuistic; One of the Last Examples of
Euphuism; The Charm of the Book; Lodge's Skill as a Story-teller; The
Lyrical Interludes; Historical Significance; Shakespeare's
Dramatization of "Rosalynde."
BIBLIOGRAPHY xxi
THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF THOMAS LODGE xxii
AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxv
AUTHOR'S DEDICATION xxvii
TEXT 1
QUESTIONS 131
[Transcriber's Note: The Questions section has been omitted from this
e-book.]
INTRODUCTION
Birth and Education. Of the life of Thomas Lodge comparatively little
is definitely known. Yet, though even the year of his birth is uncertain,
we are able from the meager facts that have come down to us to see that
his life was typically Elizabethan. Like Sidney and like Raleigh, Lodge
lived a varied and active life. He was born in either 1557 or 1558 of a
rather prominent middle-class London family, both his father and his
mother's father having been lord mayors of the city. He was sent to
Merchant Taylors' School and afterwards to Trinity College, Oxford,
where he graduated in 1577. Of his career at the university we know
almost nothing except that among his fellow students were John Lyly,
destined to exert a powerful influence upon his style, and