So far with Mr. Upton and Mr. Craik we heartily concur as to the identity of Rosalinde and Mirabella; and feel confident that a perusal and comparison of the episode of Mirabella with the whole story of Rosalinde will leave every candid and intelligent reader no choice but to come to the same conclusion: We shall now collate the attributes assigned in common to those two impersonations in their maiden state, and note the correspondence. Both are of humble birth,--Rosalinde being described in the "Shepherd's Calendar" as "the widow's daughter of the glen"; her low origin and present exalted position are frequently alluded to,--her beauty, her haughtiness, and love of liberty. Mirabella is thus described in Book VI. "Faëry Queen," Canto vii:-- "She was a lady of great dignity, And lifted up to honorable place; Famous through all the land of Faërie: Though of mean parentage and kindred base, Yet decked with wondrous gifts of Nature's grace." "But she thereof grew proud and insolent, And scorned them all that lore unto her meant." "She was born free, not bound to any wight." Of Rosalinde we hear in "Colin Clout" that her ambition is "So high in thought as she herself in place." And that she "Loatheth each lowly thing with lofty eye." Her beauty, too, is dwelt upon as a "thing celestial,"--her humble family alluded to,--the boasted freedom of her heart; and upon Rosalinde and Mirabella an affectation of the demigoddessship, which turned their heads, is equally charged. In all essential characteristics they are "twin cherries growing on one stalk." Of Rose Daniel's life so little is known, particularly during her unmarried years, that we are unable to fasten upon her the unamiable qualities of the allegorical beauties we assume to be her representatives; but if we can identify her married fortune with theirs,--then, in addition to the congruities already mentioned, we can have no hesitation in imputing to _her_ the disposition which brought down upon _them_, so bitterly and relentlessly, the poetic justice of the disappointed shepherd. We may thus dispose of them in brief. Mirabella's lot was severe. She was married (if we rightly interpret the language of the allegory) to a "_fool_,"--that is to say, to a very absurd and ridiculous person, under whose conduct she was exposed to the "whips and scorns," the disdain and bitter retaliation, natural to the union of a beautiful and accomplished, though vain and haughty woman, with a very eccentric, irritable, and bombastic humorist. 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."