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They use the connected story as a means of teaching moral lessons, and of bringing about needed reforms; and this valuable suggestion has been adopted by many of our modern writers in the so-called problem novels and novels of purpose. Nearer to the true novel is Lodge's romantic story of Rosalynde, which was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It.
Among his romances may be mentioned Euphues' Shadow, Forbonius and Prisceria , and Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie . His poems include Glaucus and Scilia , Phillis honoured with Pastoral Sonnets, Elegies, and Amorous Delights . Rosalynde, his best known work, and the source from which Shakespeare is said to have drawn As you like It, was written to beguile the tedium of a voyage to the Canaries.
Rosalynde is not only on this account the best-known, but is also intrinsically the most interesting of his romances. The story is too familiar to need detailing. Its origin, as is also well known, is the Tale of Gamelyn, the story which Chaucer intended putting into the mouth either of the cook, or more probably of the yeoman, and the hero of which apparently belongs to the Robin Hood cycle.
It is probably the only work of fiction of Elizabeth's time which could be read through at the present day without impatience, and its story and personages are well known to all through their reproduction in Shakespeare's "As You Like it." The author of "Rosalynde" was a man of very varied talents and experience.
Rosalynde began to comfort her, and after shee had wept a fewe kind teares in the bosome of her Alinda, she gave her heartie thankes, and then they sat them downe to consult how they should travel. Alinda grieved at nothing but they might have no man in their company; saying it would be their greatest prejudice in that two women went wandering without either guide or attendant.
HENRY V. . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Partly from Italian. AS YOU LIKE IT Lodge's Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie. TWELFTH NIGHT B. Riche's Apolonius and Silla. THIRD PERIOD 1602-1608 JULIUS CÆSAR North's Plutarch. OTHELLO Cinthio's Hecatommithi. LEAR do. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA North's Plutarch. CORIOLANUS do.
From Chatterton's Aella read nine stanzas from the song beginning: "O sing unto my roundelay." His The Bristowe Tragedy may be compared with Percy's Reliques and with Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner. Selections from Chatterton are given in Bronson, III., Ward, III., Oxford, Manly, I., and Century. The Novel. Selections from Lodge's Rosalynde are given in Craik, I., 544-549.
His brother dramatist, Thomas Lodge, published, in 1590, Rosalynde: Euphues's Golden Legacy, from which Shakspere took the plot of As You Like It. Shakspere and Ben Jonson both quote from Euphues in their plays, and Shakspere was really writing Euphuism when he wrote such a sentence as "'Tis true, 'tis pity; pity 'tis 'tis true."
Shakespeare found suggestions for As You Like It in Thomas Lodge's contemporary novel Rosalynde, but Touchstone and Adam are original creations.
A prose idyl is the term which best describes the courtly and pastoral character of Lodge's "Rosalynde," the last work of fiction of any importance which distinctly bears the impress of euphuism. Published in 1590, the ten editions through which it passed during the next fifty years are sufficient evidence of its popularity.
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