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Thus, in the "Shepherd's Calendar," the confidant of the lover is Hobbinoll, or Gabriel Harvey; and in the "Faëry Queen," the adventurers who come to Mirabella's relief are Prince Arthur, Sir Timias, and Serena, the well-known allegorical impersonations of Spenser's special friends, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Elizabeth Throckmorton, to whom Sir Walter was married.
We may thus dispose of them in brief. Mirabella's lot was severe. Rosalinde was married with no better fate, we fear to the vain and treacherous Menalcas. And Rose Daniel became the wife of the "Resolute John Florio." We shall commence with the substantial characters, and see how their histories fall in with the fortunes attributed to the allegorical.
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