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.

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