had a concubyne whose name
was Rose, and for hir greate bewtye he cleped hir Rose [`a] mounde
(Rosa mundi), that is to say, Rose of the world, for him thought
that she passed al wymen in bewtye.--R. Pynson (1493), subsequently
printed by Wynken de Worde in 1496.

The _Rosemonde_ of Alfieri is quite another person. (See ROSEMOND.)

=Rosa'na=, daughter of the Armenian queen who helped St. George to quench
the seven lamps of the knight of the Black Castle.--R. Johnson, _The
Seven Champions of Christendom_, ii. 8, 9 (1617).

=Roscius= (_Quintus_), the greatest of Roman actors (died B.C. 62).

What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?

Shakespeare, 3 _Henry VI._ act v. sc. 6 (1592).

_Roscius_ (_The British_), Thomas Betterton (1635-1710), and David
Garrick (1716-1779).

[Asterism] The earl of Southampton says that Richard Burbage "is famous
as our English Roscius" (1566-1619).

_Roscius_ (_The Irish_), Spranger Barry, "The Silver Tongued"
(1719-1777).

_Roscius_ (_The Young_), William Henry West Betty, who, in 1803, made
his _d['e]but_ in London. He was about 12 years of age, and in fifty-six
nights realized [pounds]34,000. He died, aged 84, in 1874.

=Roscius of France= (_The_), Michel Boyron or Baron (1653-1729).

=Roscrana=, daughter of Cormac, king of Ireland (grandfather of that
Cormac murdered by Cairbar). Roscra'na is called "the blue-eyed and
white-handed maid," and was "like a spirit of heaven, half folded in the
skirt of a cloud." Subsequently she was the wife of Fingal, king of
Morven, and mother of Ossian, "king of bards."--Ossian, _Temora_, vi.

[Asterism] Cormac, the father of Roscrana, was great-grandfather of that
Cormac who was reigning when Swaran made his invasion. The line ran
thus: (1) Cormac I., (2) Cairbre, his son, (3) Artho, his son, (4)
Cormac II., father-in-law of Fingal.

=Rose=, "the gardener's daughter," a story of happy first love, told in
later years by an old man who had, in his younger days, trifled with the
passion of love; but, like St. Augustin, was always "loving to love"
(_amans am[=a]re_), and was at length heart-smitten with Rose, whom he
married. (See ALICE.)--Tennyson, _The Gardener's Daughter_.

_Rose._ Sir John Mandeville says that a Jewish maid of Bethlehem (whom
Southey names Zillah) was beloved by one Ham'uel, a brutish sot. Zillah
rejected his suit, and Hamuel, in revenge, accused the maiden of
offences for which she w